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Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....17: FORMAL IRREGULARITY NOT TO INVALIDATE MARRIAGE No marriage contracted under this Act shall be deemed to be invalid solely by reason of the fact that it was not certified under section 6, or that the certificate was not sent to the Registrar, or that the 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.....

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.

Divorce Act, 1869 Chapter 5

Title: Judicial Separation

State: Central

Year: 1869

.....of contract, and wrongs and injuries, and suing and being sued in any civil proceedings; and her husband shall not be liable in respect of any contact, act or costs entered into, done, omitted or incurred by her during the separation: Provided that where, upon any such judicial separation, alimony has been decreed or ordered to be paid to the wife, and the same is not duly paid by the husband, he shall be liable for necessaries supplied for her use: Provided also that nothing shall prevent the wife from joining, at any time during such separation, in the exercise of any joint power given to herself and her husband. Section 26 - Reversal of Decree of Separation: Decree of separation obtained during absence of husband or wife may be reversed Any husband or wife, upon the application of whose wife or husband, as the case may be, a decree of judicial separation has been pronounced, may, at any lime thereafter, present a petition to the Court by which the decree was pronounced, praying for a reversal of such decree, on the ground that it was obtained in his or her absence, and that there was reasonable excuse for the alleged desertion, where desertion was the ground of such.....

Evacuee Interest Separation Act 1951 [Repealed] Chapter II

Title: Separation of Evacuee Interest in Composite Property

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....or the claimant the amount payable under the mortgage debt and redeem the mortgaged property; or (ii) sell the mortgaged property for satisfaction of the mortgage debt and distribute the sale proceeds thereof; or (iii) partition the property between the mortgagor and the mortgagee having regard to the share to which the mortgagee would be entitled in lieu of his claim; (c) adopt a combination of all or some of the aforesaid measures: Provided that before taking any measure under this section, the competent officer shall take into account the order of preference filed by the claimant under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 7; and in any case where the claimant is a mortgagor and tenders the amount due, the competent officer shall accept the same in full satisfaction of the mortgage debt. Section 11 - Vesting of evacuee interest in the Custodian free from encumberances and payments, etc., to be valid discharge from all claims (1) Where in respect of any property, notice under section 6 is issued but no claim is filed or found to exist or where any claim in respect of such property is found to exist and the competent officer separates the evacuee interest.....

Divorce Act, 1869 Complete Act

Title: Divorce Act, 1869

State: Central

Year: 1869

Preamble1 - DIVORCE ACT, 1869 Chapter 1 Section1 - Short title, commencement of the Act Section2 - Extent of Act Section3 - Interpretation-clause Chapter 2 Section4 - Matrimonial jurisdiction of High Courts to be exercised subject to Act-Exception Section5 - Enforcement of decrees or orders made heretofore by Supreme Court or High Court Section6 - Pending suits Section7 - Court to act on principles of English Divorce Court(Repealed) Section8 - Extraordinary jurisdiction of High Court Section9 - Reference to High Court Chapter 3 Section10 - Grounds for dissolution of marriage Section10A - Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent Section11 - Adulterer or adulteress to be co-respondent Section12 - Court to be satisfied of absence of collusion Section13 - Dismissal of petition Section14 - Power to court to pronounce decree for dissolving marriage Section15 - Relief in case of opposition on certain grounds Section16 - Decrees for dissolution to be nisi Section17 - Power of High Court to remove certain suits Section17A - Appointment of officer to exercise duties of King's Proctor (Repealed) Chapter 4 Section18 - Petition for decree of nullity Section19 - Grounds of.....

Divorce Act, 1869 Section 22

Title: Bar to Decree for Divorce a Mensa Et Toro; but Judicial Separation Obtainable by Husband or Wife

State: Central

Year: 1869

No decree shall hereafter be made for a orce a mensa et toro, but the husband or wife may obtain a decree of judicial separation, on the ground of adultery, or cruelty, or desertion 1 [***] for two years or upwards, and such decree shall have the effect of a divorce a mensa et toro under the existing law, and such other legal effect as here in after mentioned. ____________________ 1. The words "without reasonable excuse" omitted by Act 51 of 2001. section 17 (w.e.f. 3-10-2001).

Divorce Act, 1869 Section 26

Title: Reversal of Decree of Separation: Decree of Separation Obtained During Absence of Husband or Wife May Bereversed

State: Central

Year: 1869

Any husband or wife, upon the application of whose wife or husband, as the case may be, a decree of judicial separation has been pronounced, may, at any lime thereafter, present a petition to the Court by which the decree was pronounced, praying for a reversal of such decree, on the ground that it was obtained in his or her absence, and that there was reasonable excuse for the alleged desertion, where desertion was the ground of such decree. The Court may, on being satisfied of the truth of the allegations of such petition reverse the decree accordingly; but such reversal shall not prejudice or affect the rights or remedies which any other person would have had, in case it had not been decreed, in respect of any debts, contracts, or acts of the wife incurred, entered into, or done between the times of the sentence of separation and of the reversal thereof.

Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976) Chapter II

Title: Payment of Remuneration at Equal Rates to Men and Women Workers and Other Matters

State: Central

Year: 1976

.....as the case may be, the need for providing increasing employment opportunities for women, including part-time employment, and such other relevant factors as the Committee may think fit. (4) The Advisory Committee shall regulate its own procedure. (5) The appropriate Government may, after considering the advice tendered to it by the Advisory Committee and after giving to the persons concerned in the establishment or employment an opportunity to make representations, issue such directions in respect of employment of women workers, as the appropriate Government may think fit. Section 7 - Power of appropriate Government to appoint authorities for hearing and deciding claims and complaints (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification, appoint such officers, not below the rank of a Labour Officer, as it thinks fit to be the authorities for the purpose of hearing and deciding-- (a) Complaints with regard to the contravention of any provision of this Act; (b) claims arising out of non-payment of wages at equal rates to men and women workers for the same work or work of a similar nature, and may, by the same or subsequent notification, define the local limits within.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Section 32

Title: Grounds for Divorce

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....the plaintiff: Provided that divorce shall not be granted on this ground, unless (1) the plaintiff was at the time of the marriage ignorant of the fact alleged, (2) the suit has been filed within two years of the date of marriage, and (3) marital intercourse has not taken place after the plaintiff came to know of the fact; (d) that the defendant has since the marriage committed adultery or fornication or bigamy or rape or an unnatural offence: Provided that divorce shall not be granted on this ground if the suit has been filed more than two years after the plaintiff came to know of the fact; 1[(dd) that the different has since the solemnization of the marriage treated the plaintiff with cruelty or has behaved in such a way as to render it in the judgement of the Court improper to compel the plaintiff to live with the different: Provided that in every suit for divorce on this ground it shall be in the discretion of the Court whether it should grant a decree for divorce or for judicial separation only;] (e) that the defendant has since the marriage voluntarily caused grievous hurt to the plaintiff or has infected the plaintiff with venereal disease or, where the.....

Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 Amending Act 1

Title: Parsi Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, 1988

State: Central

Year: 1936

.....Gazette, appoint. 2. Amendment of section 3- In the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), section 3 shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof, and -- (a) in sub-section (1) as so re-numbered, for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely :-- "(c) in the case of any Parsi (whether such Parsi has changed his or her religion or domicile or not) who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, fund if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age."; (b) after sub-section (1) as so re-numbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely :-- "(2) Notwithstanding that a marriage is invalid under any of the provisions of sub-section (1), any child of such marriage who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate.". 3. Amendment of section 6- In section 6 of the principal Act, the words ", or their fathers or guardians when they shall not have completed the age of twenty-one years," shall be omitted. 4. Amendment of sections 19 and 20- In sections 19 and 20 of the principal Act, for the words "by seven delegates", the following.....