Bare Act · Hindu Succession Act, 1956 · Chapter I
Chapter I · Sections
1 · Short title and extent.
2 · Application of Act.
3 · Definitions and interpretation.
4 · Overriding effect of Act.
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Short title and extent.
(1)This Act may be called the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
(2)It extends to the whole of India 1***.
Footnotes (from the official text)
1 The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f. 31-10- 2019).
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