ASSAM ACT X III OF 1943.
THE ASSAM HL!'1DU WOMEN'S RIGHTS TO PROPERTY (EXTENSION TO AGRICUL-
TURAL LAND) ACT, 1943.
[Passed by the Assam L egis lature.] (RecelVed the assent of the Governor on the 7th December 1943 (Published in the Assam Ga<.tlte oi the 15th December l913.J An Act to extend the operation q( the Hindu H 'omen'1 Rights to Property Act, 1937, and the Hindu Women', Riglttr to Property (Amendment) Act, 1938, to Agricultural land in the Province of Assam.
WHFI{EAS the Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act, 1937, and the Hindu Women's Rights to Proper- ty (Amendment) Act, 1938, purport to give better rights to women in respect of property in gene1al ; And whereas transactions have already taken place in the Province on the basis that women had acquired betttr rights under the said Acts in respect or agricul- tural land as well as other kind~ of property ; And whereas it has now been established that the said Ac-ts do not operate to giw them better rights in respect of agricultural land ;
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And whereas in order to validate those transac- tions as well as to give women in future those better rights and for other purposes, it is expedient to extend the operation of the said Acts to agricultural land with retrospective effect, but with certain savings ; It is hereby enacted as follows:-
Short title, 1.(1) This Act may be called the Assam Hindu e~tent and
commence- Women's Rights to Property (Extension to Agricultu- ment. ral Land) Act, 1943.
(2) It extends to the Province of Assam.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
" Proper- 2. The term" property" in the Hindu Women's 1y " to i":- Rights to Property Act, 1937, and the Hindu Women's cl~de tgn- Rights to Property {Amendment) Act, 1938, as in ~ant~.ra force in the Province of Assam, shall include, and shall be deemed always to have included, agricultural land:
Provided that where any person who, but for
this Act, would have been entitled to any property has been in possession or has made a transf~r thereof, his possession till the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be as lawful, and the transfer made by him shall be deemed to be as valid, as if this Act had not been passed.
A.G . .P. (L.C.) No.l03-750-16-2-1944.
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XI of 1938.