Act Info:
Preamble1 - PARSI MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ACT, 1936
Part I Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Part II Section3 - Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
Section4 - Remarriage when unlawful
Section5 - Punishment of bigamy
Section6 - Certificate and registry of marriage
Section7 - Appointment of Registrar
Section8 - Marriage register to be open for public inspection
Section9 - Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar General of births Deaths and Marriages
Section10 - Registration of divorces
Section11 - Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4
Section12 - Penalty for priests neglect of requirements of section 6
Section13 - Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate
Section14 - Penalty for making, etc., false certificate
Section15 - Penalty for failing to register certificate
Section16 - Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register
Section17 - Formal irregularity or altering register
Part III Section18 - Constitution of Special Courts under the Act
Section19 - Parsi Chief Matrimonial courts
Section20 - Parsi District Matrimonial Courts
Section21 - Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District courts
Section22 - Certain districts to be within jurisdiction of the chief Matrimonial court
Section23 - Court seals
Section24 - Appointment of degrees
Section25 - Power to appoint new delegates
Section26 - Delegates to be deemed public servants
Section27 - Selection of delegates under sections 19 and 20 to be from those appointed under section 24
Section28 - Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts
Section29 - Court in which suits to be brought
Part IV Section30 - Suits for nullity
Section31 - Suits for dissolution
Section32 - Grounds for divorce
Section32A - Non-resumption of cohabitation or restitution of conjugal rights within one year in pursuance of a decree to be ground for divorce
Section32B - Divorce by mutual consent
Section33 - Joining of co-defendant
Section34 - Suits for judicial separation
Section35 - Decrees in certain suits
Section36 - Suit for restitution of conjugal rights
Section37 - Counter claim by defendant for any relief
Section38 - Documentary evidence
Section39 - Alimony pendente lite
Section40 - Permanent alimony and maintenance
Section41 - Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee
Section42 - Disposal of joint property
Section43 - Suits to heard in camera and may not be printed or published
Section44 - Validity of trial
Section45 - Provisions of civil procedure code to apply to suits under the Act
Section46 - Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact
Section47 - Appeal to High court
Section48 - Liberty to parties to marry again
Part V Section49 - Custody of children
Section50 - Settlement of wifes property for benefit of children
Part VI Section51 - Superintendence of High court
Section52 - Applicability of provisions of the Act
Section53 - Repeal
ScheduleI - SCHEDULE
ScheduleII - SCHEDULE
Amending Act1 - PARSI MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988
Amending Act2 - MARRIAGE LAWS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001