1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Married Women’s Property Act, 1874.
2. Extent and application.—3
[It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and
Kashmir*.]
But nothing herein contained applies to any married woman who at the time of her marriage
professed the Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina religion, or whose husband, at the time
of such marriage, professed any of those religions.
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[State Government] may from time to time, by order, either retrospectively from the
passing of this Act or prospectively, exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this
Act the members of any race, sect or tribe or part of a race, sect or tribe, to whom it may consider it
impossible or inexpedient to apply such provisions.
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[State Government] may also revoke any such order, but not so that the revocation shall have
any retrospective effect.
All orders and revocations under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette.
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3. [Commencement.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1876 (12 of 1876), s. 1 and Schedule.