64. Married women’s earnings to be their separate property.—The wages and earnings of any
married woman acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act, in any employment,
occupation or trade carried on by her and not by her husband,
1. The Act has been extended to and brought into force in Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and the First
Schedule (with modification) (w.e.f. 1-7-1965).
2. The relevant provision of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925) may now be referred to.
3. Subs. by Act 61 of 1959, s. 2, for the former para. (w.e.f. 1-3-1960).
4. The original words “G.G. in C.” have successively been amended by Act 38 of 1920, the A.O. 1937 and the A.O. 1950 to
read as above.
5. The last paragraph rep. by Act 39 of 1925, s. 392 and the Ninth Schedule.
6. Cf. the Married Women’s Property Act 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 93), s. 1, now rep. by Married Women’s Property Act,
1882 (45 and 46 Vict., c. 75).
*. Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of
Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
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and also any money or other property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary,
artistic or scientific skill,
and all savings from and investments of such wages, earnings and property,
shall be deemed to be her separate property, and her receipts alone shall be good discharges for
such wages, earnings and property.