Indian Trusts Act, 1882 Section 1

This Act may be called the Indian Trusts Act, 1882; and it shall come into force on the first day of March, 1882.

Local extent

¹[It extends to²[the whole of India³[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir] and] the Andaman and Nicobar Islands⁴[* * *] but the Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in Official Gazette, extend it to⁵[the Andaman and Nicobar Islands] or to any part thereof.]

Savings

But nothing he re in contained affects the rules of Muhammad an law as to waqf, or the mutual relations of the members 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.

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1. Substituted by the A.O. 1948 for the first sentence.

2. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for "all the Provinces of India, except".

3. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section. 3 and Schedule., for "except part B States".

4. The words "and Panth Piploda" omitted by the A.O. 1950.

5. Substituted by A.O. 1950, for "either or both of the said Provinces".