आधिकारिक दस्तावेज़ / Official document
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H1936-3.pdf.txt
इस संस्करण को आधिकारिक दस्तावेज़ में पढ़ें। Read this version in its official source document.
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- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 1936-04-23
- Sections available
- 55
Commencement information from the source
22-06-1936
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1Short title, extent and commencement.→2Definitions.→3Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages.→4Remarriage when unlawful.→5Punishment of bigamy.→6Certificate and registry of marriage.→7Appointment of Registrar.→8Marriage register to be open for public inspection.→9Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages.→10Registration of divorces.→11Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4.→12Penalty for priest’s neglect of requirements of section 6.→13Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate.→14Penalty for making, etc., false certificate.→15Penalty for failing to register certificate.→16Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register.→17Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage.→18Constitution of Special Courts under the Act.→19Parsi Chief Matrimonial Courts.→20Parsi District Matrimonial Courts.→21Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts.→22Certain districts to be within jurisdiction of the Chief Matrimonial Court.→23Court seal.→24Appointment of delegates.→25Power to appoint new delegates.→26Delegates to be deemed public servants.→27Selection of delegates under sections 19 and 20 to be from those appointed under section 24.→28Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts.→29Court in which suits to be brought.→30Suits for nullity.→31Suits for dissolution.→32Grounds for divorce.→32ANon-resumption of cohabitation or restitution of conjugal rights within one year in pursuance of a decree to be ground for divorce.→32BDivorce by mutual consent.→33Joining of co-defendant.→34Suits for judicial separation.→35Decrees in certain suits.→36Suit for restitution of conjugal rights.→37Counter-claim by defendant for any relief.→38Documentary evidence.→39Alimony pendente lite.→40Permanent alimony and maintenance.→41Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee.→42Disposal of joint property.→43Suits to be heard in camera and may not be printed or published.→44Validity of trial.→45Provisions of Civil Procedure Code to apply to suits under the Act.→46Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact.→47Appeal to High Court.→48Liberty to parties to marry again.→49Custody of children.→50Settlement of wife’s property for benefit of children.→51Superintendence of High court.→52Applicability of provisions of the Act.→53Repealed.→
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