Section 1:
Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be called the Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India except 2[the territories which, immediately before the
1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States] and applies also to citizens of India wherever they
may be.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".