According to Kurttila, this practice is questionable from the perspective of children rights and interests.
The matter involves a written procedure and the child applying for marriage is not given a hearing.
Over a thousand children tied the knot in the country in the period between 1995 and 2014 and of them a few dozen were girls aged between 14 and 15.
The UN Human Rights Council has requested member states to take measures to prohibit child marriage.
