1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Hindu Disposition of Property Act, 1916.
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[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2
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2. Dispositions for the benefit of persons not in existence.—Subject to the limitations and
provisions specified in this Act, no disposition of property by a Hindu, whether by transfer inter vivos or
by will, shall be invalid by reason only that any person for whose benefit it may have been made was not
in existence at the date of such disposition.
3. Limitations and conditions.—The limitations and provisions referred to in section 2 shall be the
following, namely:—
(a) in respect of dispositions by transfer inter vivos, those contained in 4
[Chapter II] of the
Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (4 of 1882), and
(b) in respect of dispositions by will, those contained in 5
[sections 113, 114, 115 and 116 of the
Indian Succession Act, 1925 (33 of 1925)].
4. [Failure of prior disposition.] Rep. by the Transfer of Property (Amendment)
Supplementary Act, 1929 (21 of 1929), s. 12.
5. Application of this Act to the Khoja community.—Where the 6
[State Government] is of
opinion that the Khoja community in 7
[the State] or any part thereof desire that the provisions of this
Act should be extended to such community 8
[it] may by notification in the Official Gazette, declare
that the provisions of this Act, with the substitution of the word “Khojas” or “Khoja,” as the case
may be, for the word “Hindus” or “Hindu” wherever those words occur, shall apply to that
community in such area as may be specified in the notification, and this Act shall thereupon have
effect accordingly.