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42/1923 - The Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923 ▶

Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923

Year: 1923

Enactment Date: 1923-08-05

Long Title: An Act to make provision for the better management of wakf property and for ensuring the keeping and publication of proper accounts in respect of such properties

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.

    (1) This Act may be called the Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923;
    ²[(2) It extends to the whole of India except ³[the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].]
    (3) This section shall come into force at once; and.
    (4) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct⁴ that the remaining provisions of this Act, or any of them which it may specify, shall come into force in the State, or any specified part thereof, on such date as it may appoint in this behalf.

Notes:

    1. This Act has been repealed in its application to Bengal by the Bengal Wakf Act, 1934 (Bengal 13 of 1934), section 82; and repealed in part in the United Provinces by the United Provinces Muslim Wakf Act, 1936 (U.P. 13 of 1936); and amended in its application to Bihar and Orissa by the Bihar and Orissa Mussalman Wakf (Amendment) Act, 1926 (B. & O., 1 of 1926); and Bombay by the Mussalman Wakf, (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1935 (Bombay 18 of 1935); the Mussalman Wakf, Bombay Public Trusts Registration and Parsi Public Trusts Registration (Amendment) Act, 1944 (Bombay 10 of 1944) and the Mussalman Wakf (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1945 (Bombay 15 of 1945). This Act shall not apply to any wakf to which the Wakf Act, 1954 (29 of 1954) applies.
    2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950 for the former sub-section.
    3. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for Part B States.
    4. Sections 2 to 5 and 7 to 13 were brought into force in the Punjab with effect from 14-5-1924, see Punjab Gazette, 1924, Part I, p. 418. Sections 2 to 13 were brought into force in the Presidency of Bombay from 1-6-1925, see Bombay Government Gazette, 1925, Part I, p. 1414. All provisions of the Act were brought into force in Bihar and Orissa from 3-9-1925, see B & O. Gazette, 1925, Part II, p. 1192. Sections 2 to 13 were brought into force in the Presidency of Bengal with certain modifications from 1-6-1927, see Calcutta Gazette, Part I, p. 1008. Sections 2 to 13 were brought into force in Ajmer-Merwara from 1-2-1928, see Gazette of India, 1928, Part II-A, p. 20

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