♣An Act to amend the law relating to marriage and divorce among Parsis.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to marriage and divorce among Paris;
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
CONTENTS
SECTIONS
1. Short title, extend and commencement
3. Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
6. Certificate and registry of marriage
8. Marriage register to be open for public inspection
9. Copy of certificate to be sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
11. Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4
12. Penalty for priest's neglect of requirements of section 6
13. Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate
14. Penalty for making, etc., false certificate
15. Penalty for failing to register certificate
16. Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register
17. Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage
18. Constitution of Special Courts under the Act
20. Parsi District Matrimonial Courts
21. Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts
25. Power to appoint new delegates
26. Delegates to be deemed public servants
27. Selection of delegates under section 20 to be from those appointed under section 24
28. Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts
29. Court in which suits to be brought
34. Suits for judicial separation
36. Suit for restitution of conjugal rights
37. Counter-claim by defendant for any relief
41. Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee
42. Disposal of joint property
43. Suits may be heard with closed doors
45. Provisions of Civil Procedure Code to apply to suits under the Act
46. Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact
47. Appeal to High Court Division
48. Liberty to parties to marry again
50. Settlement of wife's property for benefit of children
51. Rule making power the Supreme Court, etc.
52. Applicability of provisions of the Act
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