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Majority Act, 1875 Preamble 1

Title: Majority Act, 1875

State: Central

Year: 1875

THE MAJORITY ACT, 18751 [Act, No. 9 of 1875] [2nd March, 1875] PREAMBLE An Act to amend the law respecting the age of majority. WHEREAS, in the case of persons domiciled in2[India] it is expedient3[to specify the age of majority]; It is hereby enacted as follows:-- ________________________ 1. This act has been extended to Dadra and Nagar Haveli by REg. 6 of 1963, sec. 2 and Sch. I and the whole of the Union territory of Lakshadweep by Reg. 8 of 1965, sec. 3 and Sch. This Act has been extended to Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968, subject to the following modification:-- In section 1 at the end, insert:-- "Provided the nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Renoncants of the union territory of Pondicherry.". 2. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, sec. 3 and Sch., for "Part a States and Part C States". 3. Substituted by Act 33 of 1999 sec. 2, for certain words (w.e.f. 16-12-1999).

Majority Act, 1875 Section 3

Title: Age of Majority of Persons Domiciled in India

State: Central

Year: 1875

1[3. Age of majority of persons domiciled in India (1) Every person domiciled in India shall attain the age of majority on his completing the age of eighteen years and not before. (2) In computing the age of any person, the day on which he was born is to be included as a whole day and he shall be deemed to have attained majority at the beginning of the eighteenth anniversary of that day.] ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 33 of 1999, sec 4 for sections 3 and 4 (w.e.f. 16-12-1999).

Majority Act, 1875 Complete Act

Title: Majority Act, 1875

State: Central

Year: 1875

Preamble1 - MAJORITY ACT, 1875 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Saving Section3 - Age of majority of persons domiciled in India

Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Chapter V

Title: Excluded Areas and Partially Excluded Areas

State: Central

Year: 1935

.....areas (1) The executive authority of a Provinceextends to excludedand partially excluded areas therein, but notwith-standinganything in this Act, no Act of theFederal Legislature or of the ProvincialLegislature, shall apply to an excluded area or a partially excluded area,unless the Governor by public notification so directs; and the Governor ingiving such a direction with respect to any Act may direct that the Act shall inits application to the areas, or to any special part thereof, have effectsubject to such exceptions or modifications as he thinks fit. (2) The Governor may make regulations for thepeace and good government of any area in a Province which is for the timebeing an excluded area, or a partially excluded areas, and any regulations somade may repeal or amend any Act of the Federal Legislature or of the ProvincialLegislature, or any existing, Indian law, which is for the time beingapplicable to the area in question. (3)Regulations made under this sub-section shallbe submitted forthwtih to the Governor-General and until assented to by him inhis discretion shall have no effect, [and the provisions of this Part of thisAct with respect to the power of His.....

Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 91

Title: Excluded Areas and Partially Excluded Areas

State: Central

Year: 1935

.....excluded area; (d) on any alteration of the boundaries of a Province, or the creation of a new Province, declare any territory not previouslyin any Province to be, or to form part of, an excluded area or a partially excluded area, and any such Order may contain suchincidental and consequential provisions as appear to His Majesty to be necessary and proper, but save as aforesaid the Order in Council made under sub-section (1) of this section shall notbe varied by any subsequent Order. _________________________ 1. This section was substituted as follows, by the India (Provisional Constitution)Order, 1947-- "In this Act, the expression 'excluded area' and 'partially excluded area'mean respectively such areas as were excluded or partially excluded areas immediately before the establishment of the Dominion." 2. See the Government of India (Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas) Order,1936 [3-3-1936].

Wealth-tax Act, 1957 Section 20A

Title: Assessment After Partial Partition of A, Hindu Undivided Family

State: Central

Year: 1957

1[20A. Assessment after partial partition of a, Hindu Undivided Family Where a partial partition has taken place after the 31st day of December, 1978, among the members of a Hindu undivided family hitherto assessed as undivided, - (a) such family shall continue to be liable to be assessed under this Act as if no such partial partition had taken place; (b) each member or group of members of such family immediately before such partial partition and the family shall be jointly and severally liable for any tax, penalty, interest, fine or other sum payable under this Act by the family in respect of any period, whether before or after such partial partition,; (c) the several liability of any member or group of members aforesaid shall be computed according to the portion of the joint family property allotted to him or it at such partial partition, and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly. Explanation.. -For the purposes of this section, "partial partition" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (b) of the Explanation to section 171 of the Income-tax Act.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by act 44 of 1980, sec. 39 w.e.f. 1-4-1980.

Marine Insurance Act, 1963 Section 56

Title: Partial and Total Loss

State: Central

Year: 1963

(1) A loss may be either total or partial. Any loss other than a total loss, as hereinafter defined, is a partial loss. (2) A total loss may be either an actual total loss, or a constructive total loss. (3) Unless a different intention appears from the terms of the policy, an insuranace against total loss includes a constructive, as well as an actual, total loss. (4) Where the assured brings a suit for a total loss and the evidence proves only a partial loss, he may, unless the policy otherwise provides, recover for a partial loss. (5) Where goods reach their destination in specie, but by reason of obliteration of marks, or otherwise, they are incapable of identification, the loss, if any is partial and not total.

Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 92

Title: Administration of Excluded Areas and Partially Excluded Areas

State: Central

Year: 1935

.....or a partially excluded area,unless the Governor by public notification so directs; and the Governor ingiving such a direction with respect to any Act may direct that the Act shall inits application to the areas, or to any special part thereof, have effectsubject to such exceptions or modifications as he thinks fit. (2) The Governor may make regulations for thepeace and good government of any area in a Province which is for the timebeing an excluded area, or a partially excluded areas, and any regulations somade may repeal or amend any Act of the Federal Legislature or of the ProvincialLegislature, or any existing, Indian law, which is for the time beingapplicable to the area in question. (3)Regulations made under this sub-section shallbe submitted forthwtih to the Governor-General and until assented to by him inhis discretion shall have no effect, [and the provisions of this Part of thisAct with respect to the power of His Majesty to disallow Acts shall apply inrelation to any such regulations assented to by the Governor-General as theyapply in relation to Acts of a Provincial Legislature assented to by him].1 [(5) The Governor shall, as respects any areain a Province.....

Bombay Extension of Laws to Non-scheduled (Partially Excluded) Areas Act, 1954, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay Extension of Laws to Non

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1954

THE BOMBAY EXTENSION OF LAWS TO NON-SCHEDULED (PARTIALLY EXCLUDED) AREAS ACT, 1954 [Act No. 68 of 1954]1 [15th November, 1954] PREAMBLE An Act to extend certain Acts to the former partially excluded areas in the State of Bombay. WHEREAS it is expedient to extend certain Acts to certain areas in the State of Bombay which were declared to be partially excluded areas under section 91 of the Government of India Act, 1935, but which have not been declared to be the Scheduled Areas under the Constitution of India; It is hereby enacted in the Fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- _______________ 1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Bombay Government Gazette, Part V, p. 280.

Indian Majority Act, 1875 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1875

.....other Judges of the same Court before whom the question arose and the matter having been by one of them expressed to be in a complicated and unsatisfactory state was the other day referred to a Full Bench of the Court, which decided that a Hindu resident in Calcutta, who had no property in the mofussil, attained, his age of majority on the completion of his fifteen year, and refrained from deciding what was the effect of the Acts upon persons resident in Calcutta and possessed of property in the mofussil. In Bombay it has been decided that, notwithstanding Act XX of 1864, a Hindu resident in the mofussil came of age on attaining sixteen years, so as to be able to prosecute a claim by suit. In a case which came before the late Sadr Diwani Adalat of Bengal, it was held that, according to the Jain law, majority begins on the completion of sixteen years. 2. By Muhammadan law, the end of the fifteenth year, or the attainment of puberty, is the age of majority; but Muhammadans are, equally with Hindus and other British subjects in this country not being Europeans affected by the Regulations and Acts already noticed. 3. European British subjects not domiciled in this country come of.....