| 1 |
Short title, extent and commencement. | Read |
| 2 |
Definitions. | Read |
| 3 |
Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages. | Read |
| 4 |
Remarriage when unlawful. | Read |
| 5 |
Punishment of bigamy. | Read |
| 6 |
Certificate and registry of marriage. | Read |
| 7 |
Appointment of Registrar. | Read |
| 8 |
Marriage register to be open for public inspection. | Read |
| 9 |
Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages. | Read |
| 10 |
Registration of divorces. | Read |
| 11 |
Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4. | Read |
| 12 |
Penalty for priest’s neglect of requirements of section 6. | Read |
| 13 |
Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate. | Read |
| 14 |
Penalty for making, etc., false certificate. | Read |
| 15 |
Penalty for failing to register certificate. | Read |
| 16 |
Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register. | Read |
| 17 |
Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage. | Read |
| 18 |
Constitution of Special Courts under the Act. | Read |
| 19 |
Parsi Chief Matrimonial Courts. | Read |
| 20 |
Parsi District Matrimonial Courts. | Read |
| 21 |
Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts. | Read |
| 22 |
Certain districts to be within jurisdiction of the Chief Matrimonial Court. | Read |
| 23 |
Court seal. | Read |
| 24 |
Appointment of delegates. | Read |
| 25 |
Power to appoint new delegates. | Read |
| 26 |
Delegates to be deemed public servants. | Read |
| 27 |
Selection of delegates under sections 19 and 20 to be from those appointed under section 24. | Read |
| 28 |
Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts. | Read |
| 29 |
Court in which suits to be brought. | Read |
| 30 |
Suits for nullity. | Read |
| 31 |
Suits for dissolution. | Read |
| 32 |
Grounds for divorce. | Read |
| 32A |
Non-resumption of cohabitation or restitution of conjugal rights within one year in pursuance of a decree to be ground for divorce. | Read |
| 32B |
Divorce by mutual consent. | Read |
| 33 |
Joining of co-defendant. | Read |
| 34 |
Suits for judicial separation. | Read |
| 35 |
Decrees in certain suits. | Read |
| 36 |
Suit for restitution of conjugal rights. | Read |
| 37 |
Counter-claim by defendant for any relief. | Read |
| 38 |
Documentary evidence. | Read |
| 39 |
Alimony pendente lite. | Read |
| 40 |
Permanent alimony and maintenance. | Read |
| 41 |
Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee. | Read |
| 42 |
Disposal of joint property. | Read |
| 43 |
Suits to be heard in camera and may not be printed or published. | Read |
| 44 |
Validity of trial. | Read |
| 45 |
Provisions of Civil Procedure Code to apply to suits under the Act. | Read |
| 46 |
Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact. | Read |
| 47 |
Appeal to High Court. | Read |
| 48 |
Liberty to parties to marry again. | Read |
| 49 |
Custody of children. | Read |
| 50 |
Settlement of wife’s property for benefit of children. | Read |
| 51 |
Superintendence of High court. | Read |
| 52 |
Applicability of provisions of the Act. | Read |
| 53 |
Repealed. | Read |
