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Provident Funds Act, 1925 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....constituted by the authority of a railway administration for any class or classes of its employees. __________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 1 of 1930, Section 2. 2. The words "credited in respect of any such subscription or deposit" omitted by Act 1 of 1930, Section 2. 3. Substituted by Act 28 of 1925, Section 2, for "the authority by which the Fund has been constituted". 4. Substituted by Act 1 of 1930, Section 2, for "or otherwise in respect of a subscription to, or deposit in". 5. Substituted by A.O., 1937, for "the Government". 6. Substituted by A.O., 1950, for "Provincial". 7. Substituted by Act 25 of 1942, Section 3 and Sch. II, for "its employees". 8. Substituted by A.O., 1950, for "Crown". 9. Substituted by Act 7 of 1927, Section 2, for "for teachers in educational institutions". 10. Inserted by A.O. 1937. 11. The words "credited in respect of such subscriptions or deposit" omitted by Act 1 of 1930. 12. Substituted by A.O. 1937, for the original Cl. (f). 13. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, Section 3 and Schedule, for "a Part A State or Part C State". 14. Inserted by the A.O., 1950. 15. Substituted by the A.O., 1948 for "Federal.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 3

Title: Marriage

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....by the minor with the approbation of theminor's father, or, if the father is dead or absent from 1 [India] with the approbation of the High Court. (2) Nothing in this section or insection 21 shall apply to any will made orintestacy occurring before the first day of January, 1866, or to intestate or testamentarysuccession to the property of any Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh orJaina. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the States". Section 22 - Settlement of minor's property in contemplation of marriage (1) Theproperty of a minor may be settled in contemplation of marriage,provided the settlement is made by the minor with the approbation of theminor's father, or, if the father is dead or absent from 1 [India] with the approbation of the High Court. (2) Nothing in this section or insection 21 shall apply to any will made orintestacy occurring before the first day of January, 1866, or to intestate or testamentarysuccession to the property of any Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh orJaina. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the States".

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 20

Title: Interests and Powers Not Acquired nor Lost by Marriage

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) No person shall, by marriage, acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries or become incapable of doing any act in respect of his or her own property which he or she could have done if unmarried. (2) This section (a) shall not apply to any marriage contracted before the first day of January, 1866; (b) shall not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, to any marriage, one or both of the parties to which professed at the time of the marriage the Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina religion.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 6

Title: Testamentary Succession

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of ministers of religion; for the formation or support of a public garden; All these bequests are void. _____________________ 1. Added by Act 51 of 1991, section 6. INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925Chapter 8 - OF THE VESTING OF LEGACIES Section 119 - Date of vesting of legacy when payment or possession postponed Where by the terms of a bequest the legatee is not entitled to immediate possession of the thing bequeathed, a right to receive it at the proper time shall, unless a contrary intention appears by the will, become vested in the legatee on the testator's death, and shall pass to the legatee's representatives if he dies before that time and without having received the legacy, and in such cases the legacy is from the testator's death said to be vested in interest. Explanation.An intention that a legacy to any person shall not become vested in interest in him is not to be inferred merely from a provision whereby the payment or possession of the thing bequeathed is postponed, or whereby a prior interest therein is bequeathed to some other person, or whereby the income arising from the fund bequeathed is directed to be accumulated until the time of payment arrives,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 12

Title: Of Bequests with Directions as to Application or Enjoyment

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....residence for A, or to purchase an annuity for A or to place A in any business. A choses to receive the legacy in money. He is entitled to do so. Section 139 - Direction that mode of enjoyment of absolute bequest is to be restricted, to secure specified benefit for legatee Where a testator absolutely bequeaths a fund, so as to sever it from his own estate, but directs that the mode of enjoyment of it by the legatee shall be restricted so as to secure a specified benefit for the legatee; if that benefit cannot be obtained for the legatee, the fund belongs to him as if the will had contained no such direction. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths the residue of his property to be divided equally among his daughters, and directs that the shares of the daughters shall be settled upon themselves respectively for life and be paid to their children after their death. All the daughters die unmarried. The representatives of each daughter are entitled to her share of the residue. (ii) A directs his trustees to raise a sum of money for his daughter, and he then directs that they shall invest the fund and pay the income arising from it to her during her life, and divide the principal.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 139

Title: Direction That Mode of Enjoyment of Absolute Bequest is to Be Restricted, to Secure Specified Benefit for Legatee

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where a testator absolutely bequeaths a fund, so as to sever it from his own estate, but directs that the mode of enjoyment of it by the legatee shall be restricted so as to secure a specified benefit for the legatee; if that benefit cannot be obtained for the legatee, the fund belongs to him as if the will had contained no such direction. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths the residue of his property to be divided equally among his daughters, and directs that the shares of the daughters shall be settled upon themselves respectively for life and be paid to their children after their death. All the daughters die unmarried. The representatives of each daughter are entitled to her share of the residue. (ii) A directs his trustees to raise a sum of money for his daughter, and he then directs that they shall invest the fund and pay the income arising from it to her during her life, and divide the principal among her children after her death. The daughter dies without having ever had a child. Her representatives are entitled to the fund.

Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....under this section or exempted from the operation of any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1865(10 of 1865), under section 332 of that Act are in this Act referred to as "exempted persons". PART 02 OF DOMICILE SECTION 04: APPLICATION OF PART This Part shall not apply if the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina. SECTION 05: LAW REGULATING SUCCESSION TO DECEASED PERSON'S IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY, RESPECTIVELY (1) Succession to the immovable property in India of a person deceased shall be regulated by the law of India, wherever such person may have had his domicile at the time of his death. (2) Succession to the movable property of a person deceased is regulated by the law of the country in which such person had his domicile at the time of his death. SECTION 06: ONE DOMICILE ONLY AFFECTS SUCCESSION TO MOVABLES A person can have only one domicile for the purpose of the succession to his movable property. SECTION 07: DOMICILE OF ORIGIN OF PERSON OF LEGITIMATE BIRTH The domicile of origin of every person of legitimate birth is in the country in which at the time of his birth his father was domiciled; or, if he is a posthumous.....