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Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Section 10

Title: Registration of Divorces

State: Central

Year: 1936

When a Court passes a decree for divorce, nullity or dissolution, the Court shall send a copy of the decree for registration to the Registrar of Marriages within its jurisdiction appointed under section 7; the Registrar shall enter the same in a register to be kept by him for the purpose, and the provisions of Part II applicable to the Registrars and registers of marriages shall be applicable, so far as may be, to the Registrars and registers of divorces and decrees of nullity and dissolution.

Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1986

.....these rules, unless the context otherwise requires- (a) "Act" means The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986. (25 of 1986); (b) "Code" means theCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)-; and (c) "Form" means form annexed to these rules. RULE 3 SERVICE OF SUMMONS (1) Every summons issued by a Magistrate on an application made under the Act, shall be in writing, in duplicate, signed by the Magistrate or by such other officer as he may, from time to time, direct and shall bear the seal of the Court. (2) Every such summons shall be accompanied by a true copy of the application. (3) Every such summons issued under Sub-rule (1) shall specify the date of the first hearing of the application which shall not be later than seven days from the date on which the summons is issued. (4) Every summons shall be served by a police officer or by an officer of the Court issuing it. (5) The summons shall, if practicable, be served personally on the respondent, by delivering or tendering to him one of the duplicate of the summons. (6) Every respondent on whom the summons is so served shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefore on the back of other.....

Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 Section 3

Title: Mahr or Other Properties of Muslim Woman to Be Given to Her at the Time of Divorce

State: Central

Year: 1986

.....mahr or dower or the delivery of such properties referred to in clause (d) of sub-section (1) to the divorced woman: Provided that if the Magistrate finds it impracticable to dispose of the application within the said period, he may, for reasons to be recorded by him, dispose of the application after the said period. (4) If any person against whom an order has been made under sub-section (3) fails without sufficient cause to comply with the order, the Magistrate may issue a warrant for levying the amount of maintenance or mahr or dower due in the manner provided for levying fines under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) and may sentence such person, for the whole or part of any amount remaining unpaid after the execution of the warrant, to imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or until payment if sooner made, subject to such person being heard in defence and the said sentence being imposed according to the provisions of the said Code.

Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 Section 4

Title: Order for Payment of Maintenance

State: Central

Year: 1986

.....a divorced woman is unable to maintain herself and she has no relative as mentioned in sub-section (1) or such relatives or any one of them have not enough means to pay the maintenance ordered by the Magistrate or the other relatives have not the means to pay the shares of those relatives whose shares have been ordered by the Magistrate to be paid by such other relatives under the proviso to sub-section (1), the Magistrate may, by order direct the State Wakf Board established under section 9 of the Wakf Act, (29 of 1954), or under any other law for the time being in force in a State, functioning in the area in which the woman resides, to pay such maintenance as determined by him under sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, to pay the shares of such of the relatives who are unable to pay, at such periods as he may specify in his order.

Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1986

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.-- (a) "divorced woman" means a Muslim woman who was married according to Muslim law, and has been divorced by, or has obtained divorce from her husband in accordance with Muslim law; (b) "iddat period" means in the case of a divorced woman,-- (i) three menstrual courses after the date of divorce, if she is subject to menstruation; and (ii) three lunar months after her divorce, if she is not subject to menstruation; and (iii) if she is enceinte at the time of her divorce, the period between the divorce and the delivery of her child or the termination of her pregnancy, whichever is earlier; (b) "Magistrate" means a Magistrate of the First Class exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 in the area where the divorced woman resides. (d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Chapter 9

Title: Order for Maintenance of Wives, Children and Parents

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....or that they are living separately by mutual consent, the Magistrate shall cancel the order. STATE AMENDMENTS 5 Madhya Pradesh: In sub-section (1) of section 125 of the Act for the words "five hundred rupees" the words "three thousand rupees" shall be substituted. 6 Maharashtra: In Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, in its application to the State of Maharashtra:.- (a) in sub-section (1),.- (i) for the words "not exceeding five hundred rupees" the words "not exceeding fifteen hundred rupees" shall be substituted; (ii) before the existing proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:.- Provided that, the Magistrate on an application or submission being made, sup­ported by an affidavit by the person who has applied for the maintenance under this sub-section, for payment of interim maintenance, on being satisfied that, there is a prima facie ground for making such order, may direct the person against whom the application for maintenance has been made to pay a reasonable amount by way of interim maintenance to the applicant, pending the final disposal of the mainte­nance application: Provided further that, such order.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Part II

Title: Marriages Between Parsis

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....for the offence of marrying again during the lifetime of a husband or wife. Section 6 - Certificate and registry of marriage Every marriage contracted under this Act shall, immediately on the solemnization thereof, be certified by the officiating priest in the form contained in Schedule II. The certificate shall be signed by the said priest, the contracting parties,1[***], and two witnesses present at the marriage; and the said priest shall thereupon send such certificate together with a fee of two rupees to be paid by the husband to the Registrar of the place at which such marriage is solemnized. The Registrar on receipt of the certificate and fee shall enter the certificate in a register to be kept by him for that purpose and shall be entitled to retain the fee. ____________________________ 1. The words "or their fathers or guardians when they shall not have completed the age of twenty-one years" omitted by the Parsi Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, 1988, w.e.f. 15-04-1988. Section 7 - Appointment of Registrar For the purposes of this Act a Registrar shall be appointed.Within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of a High Court, the.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....certificate was defective, irregular or incorrect. "Clause 17.- This new clause lays down general principles on which most discreet Judges would act and have acted." CHAPTER III- PARSI MATRIMONIAL COURTS SECTION 18: CONSTITUTION OF SPECIAL COURTS UNDER THE ACT For the purpose of hearing suits under this Act, a special Court shall be constituted in each of the Presidency-towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, and in such other places in the territories of the several[State Governments] as such Governments respectively shall think fit. SECTION 19: PARSI CHIEF MATRIMONIAL COURTS The Court so constituted in each of the Presidency towns shall be entitled the Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay, as the case may be. The local limits of the jurisdiction of a Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court shall be conterminous with the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court. The Chief Justice of the High Court or such other Judge of the same Court, as the Chief Justice shall from time to time appoint, shall be the Judge of such Matrimonial Court, and, in the trial of cases under this Act, he shall be aided14[by five delegates, except in.....

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 127

Title: Alteration in Allowance

State: Central

Year: 1973

.....the words "five hundred rupees" the words "one thousand and five hundred rupees" shall be substituted. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 50 of 2001, section 3, for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 24-9-2001). 2. Substituted by Act 50 of 2001, section 3, for "maintenance" (w.e.f. 24-9-2001). 3. Substituted by Act 50 of 2001, section 3, for "monthly allowance has been ordered" (w.e.f. 24-9-2001). 4. Substituted by Act 50 of 2001, section 3 for "monthly allowance in pursuance of" (w.e.f. 24-9-2001). 5. Vide Maharashtra Act, 21 of 1999 Section 3 (w.e.f. 20-4-1999). 6. Vide Tripura Act 9 of 1999 Section 3 (w.e.f. 9-4-1999). 7. Vide W.B. Act 14 of 1995, Section 2 (w.e.f. 2-8-1995).

Special Marriage Act, 1954 Schedule I

Title: The First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1954

THE FIRST SCHEDULE [See section 2(b) "Degrees of prohibited relationship"] PART I 1. Mother. 2. Father's widow (step-mother). 3. Mother's mother. 4. Mother's father's widow (step grand-mother). 5. Mother's mother's mother. 6. Mother's mother's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 7. Mother's father's mother. 8. Mother's father's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 9. Father's mother. 10. Father's father's widow (step-grand mother). 11. Father's mother's mother. 12. Father's mother's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 13. Father's father's mother. 14. Father's father's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 15. Daughter. 16. Son's widow. 17. Daughter's daughter. 18. Daughter's son's widow. 19. Son's daughter. 20. Son's son's widow. 21. Daughter's daughter's daughter. 22. Daughter's daughter's son's widow. 23. Daughter's son's daughter. 24. Daughter's son's son's widow. 25. Son's daughter's daughter. 26. Son's daughter's son's widow. 27. Son's son's daughter. 28. Son's son's son's widow. 29. Sister. 30. Sister's daughter. 31. Brother's daughter. 32. Mother's sister. 33. Father's sister. .....