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  "title": "THE HINDU LAW OF INHERITANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 1929",
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  "text": "THE HINDU LAW OF INHERITANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1929\r\n(II of 1929)\r\nCONTENTS\r\n1. Short title, extent and application.\r\n2. Order of succession of certain heirs.\r\n3. Savings.\r\n \r\nTEXT\r\n1THE HINDU LAW OF INHERITANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1929\r\n(II of 1929)\r\n[21st February, 1929]\r\nAn\r\nAct\r\nto alter the order in which certain heirs of a Hindu male dying intestate are entitled to \r\nsucceed to his estate.\r\nWHEREAS it is expedient to alter the order in which certain heirs of a Hindu  \r\nmale dying intestate are entitled to succeed to his estate;\r\nIt is hereby enacted as follows:-\r\n1. Short title, extent and application.– (1) This Act may be called the Hindu Law  \r\nof Inheritance (Amendment) Act, 1929.\r\n(2) It extends to  2[the whole of  3[the Punjab], but it applies only to persons  \r\nwho, but for the passing of this Act; would have been subject to the law of Mitakshara in  \r\nrespect of the provisions herein enacted, and it applies to such persons in respect only  \r\nof the property of males not held in coparcenary and not disposed of by will.\r\n2. Order of succession of certain heirs.– A son’s daughter, daughter’s daughter,  \r\nsister, and sister’s son shall, in the order so specified, be entitled to rank in the order of  \r\nsuccession next after a father’s father and before the father’s brothers:\r\nProvided that a sister’s son shall not include a son adopted after the sister’s  \r\ndeath.\r\n1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1928, Pt.V, p.117; for Report of Select \r\nCommittee, see ibid, p.187.\r\nThis Act was extended to the Leased Areas of Baluchistan, see the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950 \r\n(G.G.O. 3 of 1950); and applied in the Federated Areas of Baluchistan, see Gazette of India, 1937, Pt.I, \r\np.1499.\r\nThis Act was originally in the Federal ambit, however, the subject on which this law was enacted \r\ndevolved to the provinces by virtue of 18th Amendment in the Constitution, hence it was adopted, with \r\namendments, for the province of the Punjab by the Hindu Law of Inheritance (Second Amendment) Act \r\n2012 (XVIII of 2012).\r\n2 The original words “the whole of British India, including British Baluchistan and the Sonthal Parganas” \r\nhave successively been amended by Adaptation Order, 1949, the Federal Laws (Revision and \r\nDeclaration) Act, 1951 (XXVI of 1951), and the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (XXI of \r\n1960), s.3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th, October 1955), to read as such\r\n3 Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Hindu Law of Inheritance (Second Amendment) Act 2012 \r\n(XVIII of 2012).\r\n3. Savings.– Nothing in this Act shall–\r\n(a) affect any special family or local custom having the force of law, or\r\n(b) vest in a son’s daughter, daughter’s daughter or sister an estate larger  \r\nthan, or different in kind from, that possessed by a female in property  \r\ninherited by her from a male according to the School of Mitakshara law by  \r\nwhich the male was governed, or\r\n(c) enable more than one person to succeed by inheritance to the estate of a  \r\ndeceased Hindu male which by a customary or other rule of succession  \r\ndescends to a single heir.",
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