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  "title": "HINDU INHERITANCE (REMOVAL OF DISABILITIES) ACT, 1928",
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  "text": "Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) \r\n1928: Act XII \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title, extent and application. \r\n2. Persons not to be excluded from inheritance or rights in joint -family \r\nproperty. \r\n3. Saving and exception. \r\nTHE HINDU INHERITANCE (REMOVAL OF \r\nDISABILITIES) ACT, 1928 \r\n(XII of 1928) \r\n \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE HINDU INHERITANCE (REMOVAL OF DISABILITIES) ACT, \r\n1928 \r\n(XII of 1928) \r\n[29 September 1928] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto amend the Hindu Law relating to exclusion from inheritance of certain classes of heirs, \r\nand to remove certain doubts. \r\n WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Hindu Law relating to exclusio n from \r\ninheritance of certain classes of heirs, and to remove certain doubts; \r\n It is hereby enacted as follows:– \r\n1. Short title, extent and application .– (1) This Act may be called the Hindu \r\nInheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928. \r\n \r\n2\r\n[(2) It extends to the whole of \r\n3\r\n[the Punjab].] \r\n (3) It shall not apply to any person governed by the Dayab haga School of Hindu \r\nLaw. \r\n2. Persons not to be excluded from inheritance or rights in joint -family property.– \r\nNotwithstanding any rule of Hindu Law or custom to the contrary, no person governed by the \r\nHindu Law, other  than a person who is and has been from birth a lunatic or idiot, shall be \r\nexcluded from inheritance or from any right or share in joint-family property by reason only of \r\nany disease, deformity, or physical or mental defect. \r\n3. Saving and exception .– Nothing contained in this Act shall affect any right which \r\nhas accrued or any liability which has been incurred before the commencement thereof, or \r\nshall be deemed to confer upon any person any right in res pect of any religious office or \r\nservice or of the management of any religious or charitable trust which he would not have \r\nhad if this Act had not been passed. \r\n \r\n \r\n                                                           \r\n1For the Statement of Objects and Reasons, see , Gazette of India, 1928, P art V, p. 51. This Act received the assent of the \r\nGovernor General on 20th September, 1928; published in the Gazette of India, Part IV, dated September 29, 1928, p. 29.  This \r\nAct was originally in the Federal ambit, however, the subject on which this law was enacted devolved to the provinces by virtue \r\nof 18 th Amendment in the Constitution  of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, hence it was adapted, with amendments, for the \r\nprovince of the Punjab by the Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) (Amendment) Act 2012 (XI of 2012). \r\n2Substituted by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (XXI of 1960), (w.e.f. 14.10.1955), published in the Gazette \r\nof Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated June 9, 1960, pp. 725-845, s. 3 read with Second Schedule; which were earlier substituted \r\nby the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act 1951 (XXVI of 1951), s.  8, which were earlier omitted the words “and the \r\nSonthal Parganas” by the Adaptation of Central Acts and Ordinances Order, 1949 (G.G.O. No. 4 of 1949), (w.e.f. 28.3.1949), \r\npublished in the Gazette of Pakistan, pp. 223-283, Articles 3(2) and 4. \r\n3Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) (Amenment) Act 2012 (XI of 2012), \r\npublished in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated Februray 11, 2012, p. 40139, s. 2.",
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