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TRUSTS ACT, 1882 TRUSTS ACT, 1882 2 of 1882 An Act to define and amend the law relating to Private Trusts and Trustees. Whereas it is expedient to define and amend the law relating lo private trusts and trustees it is hereby enacted as follows:- SECTION 01 : SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT. This Act may be called the Indian Trusts Act, 1882; and it shall come into force on the first day of March, 1882. It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; but the Central Government may, from time lo time, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend it to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands or to any part thereof. But nothing herein contained affects the rules of Muhamadan law as to waqf, or the mutual relations of the member's of an undivided family as determined by any customary, or personal law, or applies to public or private religious or charitable endowments or to trusts to distribute prizes taken in war among the captors; and nothing in the Second Chapter of this Act applies to trusts created before the said day.