THE MUSLIM WOMEN (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ON DIVORCE) ACT, 19861
[Act, No. 25 of 1986]
PREAMBLE
An Act to protect the rights of Muslim women who have been divorced by, or have obtained divorce from their husbands and to provide for matters connected therewith, or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh year of the Republic of India as follows:--
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1. The Act received the assent of the President of India on May 19, 1986 and was published in the Gazette of India Extra-Ord., Part II, Sec. 1.