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THE HARYANA PUBLIC WAKFS (EXTENSION OF LIMITATION)

ACT, 1987

(HARYANA ACT NO. 10 OF 1988)

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1. Short title and extent.

2. Definition.

3. Extention of period of limitation in certain cases for suits to recover possession of immovable property forming part of public wakfs. 1988 : Hr. Act 10] PUBLIC WAKFS (EXTENSION OF LIMITATION)

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1 THE HARYANA PUBLIC WAKFS (EXTENSION OF LIMITATION)

ACT, 1987

(HARYANA ACT NO. 10 OF 1988)

(Received the assent of the President of India on the 17th March, 1988 and was first published in the Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), Legislative Supplement Part 1 of the 29th March, 1988.)

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Year No. Short title Whether repealed or otherwise affected by Legislation

1988 10 The Haryana Public

Wakfs (Extension of

Limitation) Act, 1987

AN

ACT

to extend the period of limitation in certain cases for suits to recover possession of immovable property forming part of public wakfs. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Haryana Public Wakfs (Extension of Limitation) Act, 1987.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Haryana.

2. In this Act, "public wakf" means the permanent dedication by a person professing Islam of any immovable property for any purpose recognized by Muslim Law as a public purpose of a pious, religious or charitable nature.

3. Where a person entitled to institute a suit of the description referred to in article 64 or 65 of the Schedule to the Indian Limitation Act, 1963, for possession of any immovable property forming part of a public wakf or any interest therein has been dispossessed, at any time after the 14th day of August, 1947, and before the 7th day of May, 1954, or as the case may be, the possession of the defendant in such a suit has become adverse to such person at any time during the said period, then, notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act, the period of limitation in respect of such a suit shall extend up to the 31st day of December, 1990.

1988: Hr. Act 10] PUBLIC WAKFS (EXTENSION OF LIMITATION)

Short title and

extent.

Definition.

Extension of

period of

limitation in

certain cases for

suits to recover

possession of

immovable

property forming

part of public

wakfs.

1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated the 17th December, 1987, Page 1948.

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