Family and Personal Law
The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936
Act 3 of 1936 · 55 sections
Title, date and preamble
[23rd April, 1936.]
An Act to amend the law relating to marriage and divorce among Parsis.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to marriage and divorce among Parsis; It is
hereby enacted as follows:—
Contents
I.—PRELIMINARY
II.—MARRIAGES BETWEEN PARSIS
- 3.Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
- 4.Remarriage when unlawful
- 5.Punishment of bigamy
- 6.Certificate and registry of marriage
- 7.Appointment of Registrar
- 8.Marriage register to be open for public inspection
- 9.Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
- 10.Registration of divorces
- 11.Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4
- 12.Penalty for priest’s neglect of requirements of section 6
- 13.Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate
- 14.Penalty for making, etc., false certificate
- 15.Penalty for failing to register certificate
- 16.Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register
- 17.Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage
III.—PARSI MATRIMONIAL COURTS
- 18.Constitution of Special Courts under the Act
- 19.Parsi Chief Matrimonial Courts
- 20.Parsi District Matrimonial Courts
- 21.Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts
- 22.Certain districts to be within jurisdiction of the Chief Matrimonial Court
- 23.Court seal
- 24.Appointment of delegates
- 25.Power to appoint new delegates
- 26.Delegates to be deemed public servants
- 27.Selection of delegates under sections 19 and 20 to be from those appointed under section 24
- 28.Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts
- 29.Court in which suits to be brought
IV.—MATRIMONIAL SUITS
- 30.Suits for nullity
- 31.Suits for dissolution
- 32.Grounds for divorce
- 32A.Non-resumption of cohabitation or restitution of conjugal rights within one year in pursuance of a decree to be ground for divorce
- 32B.Divorce by mutual consent
- 33.Joining of co-defendant
- 34.Suits for judicial separation
- 35.Decrees in certain suits
- 36.Suit for restitution of conjugal rights
- 37.Counter-claim by defendant for any relief
- 38.Documentary evidence
- 39.Alimony pendente lite
- 40.Permanent alimony and maintenance
- 41.Payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee
- 42.Disposal of joint property
- 43.Suits to be heard in camera and may not be printed or published
- 44.Validity of trial
- 45.Provisions of Civil Procedure Code to apply to suits under the Act
- 46.Determination of questions of law and procedure and of fact
- 47.Appeal to High Court
- 48.Liberty to parties to marry again
V.—CHILDREN OF THE PARTIES
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