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In forceACT NO. III OF 1936 · 23rd April, 1936

The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936

পার্সি বিবাহ ও বিবাহবিচ্ছেদ আইন, 1936

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

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Contents

  1. PreamblePreamble

I. PRELIMINARY

  1. Section 1Short title, extend and commencement
  2. Section 2Definitions

II. MARRIAGE BETWEEN PARSIS

  1. Section 3Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
  2. Section 4Remarriage when unlawful
  3. Section 5Punishment of bigamy
  4. Section 6Certificate and registry of marriage
  5. Section 7Appointment of Registrar
  6. Section 8Marriage register to be open for public inspection
  7. Section 9Copy of certificate to be sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
  8. Section 10Registration of divorces
  9. Section 11Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4
  10. Section 12Penalty for priest's neglect of requirements of section 6
  11. Section 13Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate
  12. Section 14Penalty for making, etc., false certificate
  13. Section 15Penalty for failing to register certificate
  14. Section 16Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register
  15. Section 17Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage

III. PARSI MATRIMONIAL COURTS

  1. Section 18Constitution of Special Courts under the Act
  2. Section 19[Omitted]Repealed
  3. Section 20Parsi District Matrimonial Courts
  4. Section 21Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts
  5. Section 22[Omitted]Repealed
  6. Section 23Court seals
  7. Section 24Appointment of delegates
  8. Section 25Power to appoint new delegates
  9. Section 26Delegates to be deemed public servants
  10. Section 27Selection of delegates under section 20 to be from those appointed under section 24
  11. Section 28Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts
  12. Section 29Court in which suits to be brought

IV. MATRIMONIAL SUITS

  1. Section 30Suits for nullity
  2. Section 31Suits for dissolution
  3. Section 32Grounds for divorce
  4. Section 33Joining of co-defendant
  5. Section 34Suits for judicial separation
  6. Section 35Decrees in certain suits
  7. Section 36Suit for restitution of conjugal rights
  8. Section 37Counter-claim by defendant for any relief
  9. Section 38No suit to be brought to enforce marriage or contract arising out of marriage when husband is under sixteen or wife under fourteen years
  10. Section 39Alimony pendente lite
  11. Section 40Permanent alimony
  12. Section 41Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee
  13. Section 42Disposal of joint property
  14. Section 43Suits may be heard with closed doors
  15. Section 44Validity of trial
  16. Section 45Provisions of Civil Procedure Code to apply to suits under the Act
  17. Section 46Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact
  18. Section 47Appeal to High Court Division
  19. Section 48Liberty to parties to marry again

V. CHILDREN OF THE PARTIES

  1. Section 49Custody of children
  2. Section 50Settlement of wife's property for benefit of children

VI. MISCELLANEOUS

  1. Section 51Rule making power the Supreme Court, etc.
  2. Section 52Applicability of provisions of the Act
  3. Section 53[Repealed]Repealed

Schedules

  1. First Scheduleany decree or order referred to was passed under this Act or
  2. First ScheduleTable of prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity66 entries
  3. Second ScheduleCertificate of Marriage