Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936

Bare Act · 1936

An Act to amend the law relating to marriage and divorce among Parsis.

Act number: 3 of 1936
Enacted: 23 April 1936
Contents: 55 sections

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Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
Section 4 – Remarriage when unlawful
Section 5 – Punishment of bigamy
Section 6 – Certificate and registry of marriage (preview)
Section 7 – Appointment of Registrar (preview)
Section 8 – Marriage register to be open for public inspection (preview)
Section 9 – Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages (preview)
Section 10 – Registration of divorces (preview)
Section 11 – Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4 (preview)
Section 12 – Penalty for priest’s neglect of requirements of section 6 (preview)
Section 13 – Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate (preview)
Section 14 – Penalty for making, etc., false certificate (preview)
Section 15 – Penalty for failing to register certificate (preview)
Section 16 – Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register (preview)
Section 17 – Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage (preview)
Section 18 – Constitution of Special Courts under the Act (preview)
Section 19 – Parsi Chief Matrimonial Courts (preview)
Section 20 – Parsi District Matrimonial Courts (preview)
Section 21 – Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts (preview)
Section 22 – Certain districts to be within jurisdiction of the Chief Matrimonial Court (preview)
Section 23 – Court seal (preview)
Section 24 – Appointment of delegates (preview)
Section 25 – Power to appoint new delegates (preview)
Section 26 – Delegates to be deemed public servants (preview)
Section 27 – Selection of delegates under sections 19 and 20 to be from those appointed under section 24 (preview)
Section 28 – Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts (preview)
Section 29 – Court in which suits to be brought (preview)
Section 30 – Suits for nullity (preview)
Section 31 – Suits for dissolution (preview)
Section 32 – Grounds for divorce (preview)
Section 32A – Non-resumption of cohabitation or restitution of conjugal rights within one year in pursuance of a decree to be ground for divorce (preview)
Section 32B – Divorce by mutual consent (preview)
Section 33 – Joining of co-defendant (preview)
Section 34 – Suits for judicial separation (preview)
Section 35 – Decrees in certain suits (preview)
Section 36 – Suit for restitution of conjugal rights (preview)
Section 37 – Counter-claim by defendant for any relief (preview)
Section 38 – Documentary evidence (preview)
Section 39 – Alimony pendente lite (preview)
Section 40 – Permanent alimony and maintenance (preview)
Section 41 – Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee (preview)
Section 42 – Disposal of joint property (preview)
Section 43 – Suits to be heard in camera and may not be printed or published (preview)
Section 44 – Validity of trial (preview)
Section 45 – Provisions of Civil Procedure Code to apply to suits under the Act (preview)
Section 46 – Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact (preview)
Section 47 – Appeal to High Court (preview)
Section 48 – Liberty to parties to marry again (preview)
Section 49 – Custody of children (preview)
Section 50 – Settlement of wife’s property for benefit of children (preview)
Section 51 – Superintendence of High court (preview)
Section 52 – Applicability of provisions of the Act (preview)
Section 53 – Repealed (preview)

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