Bare Act · Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 · Preliminary
Preliminary · Sections
1 · Short title and extent.
2 · Application of Act.
3 · Definitions.
4 · Overriding effect of Act.
1
Short title and extent.
(1)This Act may be called the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
(2)It extends to the whole of India 1***, and applies also to Hindus domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are outside the said territories.
Footnotes (from the official text)
1 The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and Sch. V (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).
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