HINDU ADOPTIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACT, 1956
(78 OF 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:-
CHAPTER IPRELIMINARYShort title and extent1. (1) This Act may be called the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956.(2) It extends to the whole of India [***].
1. Dated 21-12-1956.Act has been extended to Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Regulation 6 of 1963.
2. Words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, dated 9-8-2019, w.e.f. 31-10-2019.
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