The West Pakistan Hindu Women’s Rights to Agricultural Land Ordinance, 1959.
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Main Category: | Ordinance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Specific Category Name: | Land | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Year | 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Promulgation Date: | 26-03-1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Details: | THE WEST PAKISTAN HINDU WOMEN’S
RIGHTS TO AGICULTURAL LAND ORDINANCE, 1959. (W.
P. Ordinance XI of 1959) CONTENTS SECTIONS. 1.
Short title and extent. 2.
Application. 3.
Devolution of agricultural land. 4.
Repeal and savings. THE WEST PAKISTAN HINDU WOMEN’S
RIGHTS TO AGICULTURAL LAND ORDINANCE, 1959. W. P. Ordinance XI of 1959 [26th
March, 1959] AN ORDINANCE to
consolidate the Hindu Law governing Hindu Women’s rights to agricultural land
in the Province of West Pakistan.
Provided that the widow of a predeceased son shall inherit in like manner as a
son if there is no son surviving of such predeceased son and shall inherit in
like manner as son’s son if there is surviving a son or son’s son of such
predeceased son: (2)
When a Hindu governed by any school of Hindu Law other than the Dayabhaga
School or by customary law dies having at the time of his death an interest in
a Hindu joint family agricultural land, his widow shall, subject to the
provisions of sub-section (3), be entitled to the same interest in the
agricultural land as he himself had. (3)
Any interest devolving on a Hindu widow under the provisions of this section
shall be the limited interest known in Hindu Law as a Hindu women’s estate,
provided however that she shall have the same right of claiming partition as a
male owner. (4)
The provisions of this section shall not apply to an estate which by a
customary or other rule of succession or by the terms of the grant applicable
thereto descends to a single heir or to any property to which the Succession
Act, 1925, applies.
[1]. In Sub-section(2), for the words
“Province of West Pakistan”, the words “ North-West Frontier Province”, subs.
by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Adaptation Order, 1975 and then subs vide Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Act No.IV of 2011. [2]. Subs. by W. P. Ordinance No, VII of
1964. [3].
Omitted by
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Adaptation of laws Order, 1975. |