Section 1Short title Commencemen

s. 1

1. Short title Commencemen This Act may be called the Trusts Act, 1882: and it shall come into force on the first day of March, 1882. [Local extent Savings] It extends to the whole of Bangladesh. But nothing herein contained affects the rules of [Muslim] law as to waqf, or the mutual relations of the members of an undivided family as determined by any customary or personal law, or applies to public or private religious or charitable endowments, or to trust to distribute prizes taken in war among the captors; and nothing in the second Chapter of this Act applies to trusts created before the said day.

1. 2. The word “Muslim” was substituted, for the word “Muhammadan” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)