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HINDU WIDOW'S REMARRIAGE ACT, 1856 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1856

HINDU WIDOW'S RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856 HINDU WIDOW'S RE-MARRIAGE ACT, 1856 An Act to remove all legal obstacles to the Marriage of Hindu Widows Whereas it is known that, by the law as administered in the Civil Courts established in the territories in the possession and under the Government of the East India Company, Hindu widows with certain exceptions are held to be, by reason of their having been once married, incapable of contracting a second valid marriage and the offspring of such widows by any second marriage are held to be illegitimate and incapable of inheriting property; and whereas many Hindus believe that this imputed legal incapacity, although it is in accordance with established custom, is not in accordance with a true interpretation of the precepts of their religion, and desire that the civil law administered by the Courts of Justice shall no longer prevent those Hindus who maybe so minded from adopting a different custom, in accordance with the dictates of their own conscience; and whereas it is just to relieve all such Hindus from this legal incapacity of which they complain, and the removal of all legal obstacles to the marriage of Hindu widows will tend.....

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 Chapter IV

Title: Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....or any other officer appointed for the purpose, on the progress of each juvenile or the child; (d) for the standards and the nature of services to be maintained by such after care organisations; (e) for such other matters as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the scheme of after-care programme for the juvenile or the child: Provided that any rule made under this section shall not provide for such juvenile or child to stay in the after-care organisation for more than three years: Provided further that a juvenile or child over seventeen years of age but less than eighteen years of age would stay in the after-care organisation till he attains the age of twenty years. Section 45 - Linkages and co-ordination The State Government may make rules to ensure effective linkages between various governmental, non-governmental, corporate and other community agencies for facilitating the rehabilitation and social reintegration of the child.

Christian Marriage Act1872 Schedule IV

Title: Fourth Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1872

SCHEDULE IV (See sections 32 and 54) MARRIAGE REGISTER BOOK capable of inheriting capable of inheriting the whole or any share of such property if before the passing of this Act, she would have been incapable of inheriting the same by reason of her being a childless widow. Nothing in this Act to render any childless widow capable of inheriting. 5. Except as in three preceding sections is provided , a widow shall not by reason of her re-marriage forfeit any property or any right to which she would otherwise be entail between us ___________ Martha Duncan, ___________ John Green. CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE Number When married. Names of parties Age Christian name Surname Day Month Year. Martha White. Duncan 26 years. 17 years Condition Rank or profession Residence at the time of marriage Father's name and surname Widower. Spinster Carpenter Agra Agra ______________.William White John Duncan Married in the __________ James White, __________ John Smith. This marriage was solemnized __________in the presence of us between us ____________ Martha Duncan, ____________ John Green.

The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2007

THE MAINTENANCE AND WELFARE OF PARENTS AND SENIOR CITIZENS ACT, 2007 THE MAINTENANCE AND WELFARE OF PARENTS AND SENIOR CITIZENS ACT, 2007 AN ACT to provide for more effective provisions for the maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens guaranteed and recognized under the Constitution and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY 1. Short title extent, Application and commencement: (1) This Act may be called the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. (2) It Extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir and it applies also to citizens of India outside India. (3) It shall come into force in a State on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires," (a) "children" includes son, daughter, grandson and grand-daughter but does not include a minor; (b) "maintenance" includes provision for food,.....

Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 2007

.....3 Act to have overriding effect The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any enactment other than this Act, or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any enactment other than this Act. CHAPTER 2 Maintenance of Parents and Senior Citizens Section 4 Maintenance of parents and senior citizens (1) A senior citizen including parent who is unable to maintain himself from his own earning or out of the property owned by him, shall be entitled to make an application under section 5 in case of- (i) parent or grand-parent, against one or more of his children not being a minor; (ii) a childless senior citizen, against such of his relative, referred to in clause (g) of section 2. (2) The obligation of the children or relative as the case may be, to maintain a senior citizen extends to the needs of such citizen so that senior citizen may lead a normal life. (3) The obligation of the children to maintain his or her parent extends to the needs of such parent either father or mother or both, as the case may be, so that such parent may lead a normal life. (4) Any person being a relative of a senior citizen and.....

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2006 Section 21

Title: Amendment of Section 41

State: Central

Year: 2006

In section 41 of the principal Act,-- (i) for sub-sections (2), (3) and (4), the following sub-sections shall be substituted, namely:-- "(2) Adoption shall be resorted to for the rehabilitation of the children who are orphan, abandoned or surrendered through such mechanism as may be prescribed. (3) In keeping with the provisions of the various guidelines for adoption issued from time to time, by the State Government, or the Central Adoption Resource Agency and notified by the Central Government, children may be given in adoption by a court after satisfying itself regarding the investigations having been carried out, as are required for giving such children in adoption. (4) The State Government shall recognise one or more of its institutions or voluntary organisations in each district as specialised adoption agencies in such manner as may be prescribed for the placement of orphan, abandoned or surrendered children for adoption in accordance with the guidelines notified under sub-section (3): Provided that the children's homes and the institutions run by the State Government or a voluntary organisation for children in need of care and protection, who are orphan,.....

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 Section 41

Title: Adoption

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....may be prescribed for the placement of orphan, abandoned or surrendered children for adoption in accordance with the guidelines notified under sub-section (3): Provided that the children's homes and the institutions run by the State Government or a voluntary organisation for children in need of care and protection, who are orphan, abandoned or surrendered, shall ensure that these children are declared free for adoption by the Committee and all such cases shall be referred to the adoption agency in that district for placement of such children in adoption in accordance with the guidelines notified under sub-section (3).] ( 5) No child shall be offered for adoption-- (a) until two members of the Committee declare the child legally free for placement in the case of abandoned children, (b) till the two months period for reconsideration by the parent is over in the case of surrendered children, and (c) without his consent in the case of a child who can understand and express his consent. 1[(6)The court may allow a child to be given in adoption-- (a)to a person irrespective of marital status; or (b)to parents to adopt a child of same sex irrespective of the number of.....

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 Chapter V

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 2000

..... (2) Save as otherwise expressly provided by or under this Act, the procedure to be followed in hearing appeals or revision proceedings under this Act shall be, as far as practicable, in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974). Section 55 - Power to amend orders (1) Without prejudice to the provisions for appeal and revision under this Act, any competent authority may, on an application received in this behalf, amend any order as to the institution to which a juvenile or the child is to be sent or as to the person under whose care or supervision a juvenile or the child is to be placed under this Act: Provided that there shall be at least two members and the parties or its defence present during the course of hearing for passing an amendment in relation to any of its order. (2) Clerical mistakes in orders passed by a competent authority or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission may, at any time, be corrected by the competent authority either on its own motion or on an application received in this behalf. Section 56 - Power of competent authority to discharge and transfer juvenile or child The competent.....

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 Amending Act 1

Title: Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2006

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....ACT, 2006 [Act, No. 33 of 2006] [22nd August, 2006.] PREAMBLE An Act to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- 1. Short title This Act may be called the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2006. 2. Amendment of long title In the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, 56 of 2000 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in the long title, for the words "through various institutions established under this enactment", the words "and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto" shall be substituted. 3. Amendment of section 1 In section 1 of the principal Act,-- (i) in the marginal heading, for the words "and commencement", the words "commencement and application" shall be substituted; (ii) after sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-- "(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the provisions of this Act shall apply to all cases involving detention, prosecution, penalty or sentence of.....

Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 Chapter 1

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 2007

.....and is in possession of or would inherit his property after his death; (h) "senior citizen" means any person being a citizen of India, who has attained the age of sixty years or above; (i) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution; (j) "Tribunal" means the Maintenance Tribunal constituted under section 7; (k) "welfare" means provision for food, health care, recreation centres and other amenities necessary for the senior citizens. Section 3 - Act to have overriding effect The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any enactment other than this Act, or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any enactment other than this Act.