An Act to remove doubts as to the validity of the marriage ceremony common among the Sikhs called Anand Whereas it is expedient to remove any doubts as to the validity of the marriage ceremony common among the Sikhs called Anand; It is hereby enacted as follows: 1. Short title and extent. — ...

1.Short title and extent.-(1) This Act may be called the Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937.1*[(2) It extends to the whole of India except 2*[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States] and applies also to citizens of India wherever they may be.] 2.Marriage between Arya Samajists ...

CHAPTER IPRELIMINARY. 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886; and   (2) It shall come into force on such day 4* as the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, directs. 5* * * * * --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This Act has been extended to-- Goa, Daman ...

 An Act to restrain the solemnisation of child marriages. Whereas it is expedient to restrain the solemnisation of child marriages; It is hereby enacted as follows: — 1. Short title, extend and commencement . — This Act may be called the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929. (2) It extends to the whole of ...

1.Preamble. This Act may be cited as the 2* * * Converts Marriage Dissolution Act, 1866 3*. 2.Short title. 2.Short title.-[Commencement of Act.] Rep. by the Repeating Act, 1874 (16 of 1874), s.1 and Sch. I. 3.Interpretation-clause "Husband". 3.Interpretation-clause "Husband". In this Act- "Husband".-"2* * * husband" shall mean a married man domiciled in 4[India], who shall have ...

1. Short title and commencement. — (1) These rules may be called the Dowry Prohibition (Maintenance of Lists of Presents to the Bride and Bridegroom) Rules, 1985. (2) They shall come into force on the 2nd day of October, 1985 being the date appointed for the coming into force of the ...

1. Short title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jam and Kashmir. (3) It shall come INTO force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2.Definition of ...

CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. - 1) This Act may be called the Family Courts Act, 1984. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification ...

CHAPTER IPRELIMINARY 1.Short title.-This Act may be called the Foreign Marriage Act, 1969.2.Definitions.   2.Definitions.-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "degrees of prohibited relationship" shall have the same meaning as in the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954; (b) "district", in relation to a Marriage Officer, means the area within which the duties ...

CHAPTER IPRELIMINARY   1. Title, extent and commencement.-This Act may be called the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. (2) It extends to the whole of India 2*[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir], 3* * * * *; (3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1890. 2.Repeal. 2.[Repeal.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, ...