Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956

Chapter PREAMBLE

Preamble of the Act

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Section Preamble

ACT NO. 78 OF 1956¹

[21st December, 1956.]

An Act to amend and codify the law relating to adoptions and maintenance among Hindus.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:―

Footnote

1. This Act has been extended to Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and First Schedule. This Act has been amended in U.P. Act 57 of 1976.

This Act shall, from a date to be notified by the administrator, come into force in Pondicherry, subject to the following modification:
In section 2, after sub-section (2), insert:― “(2A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the renoncants of the Union territory of Pondicherry.”

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