THE
MAJORITY ACT, 1875
(Act No.
9 of 1875)
Arrangement
of Sections
Sections
1.
Short Title
2.
To Saving
3.
Age of Majority Persons domiciled in India
THE
MAJORITY ACT, 1875
(Act No.
9 of 1875)
2nd
March 1875
An Act to amend the Law
Respecting the age of majority.
Preamble:-
Where is, in the case of persons domiciled in [India] it is expedient
[to specify the age of majority]; it is
here by enacted as follows:-
1.
Short title.- This act may called the [xxx]
Majority Act, 1875.
Local
extent.- [It extents to the whole of India (except the State of
Jammu and Kashmir)];
Commencement
of operation.- and it shall come into force and have effect only on
the expiration of three months from the passing thereof.
State
Amendments- [Goa, Daman and Diu ]. – The words “and it shall come
into force and have effect only on the expiration of three months from the
passing thereof” have been omitted.
State
Amendments-[Pondicherry].-In section (1), the following proviso shall be
inserted at the end as follows:-
“Provided
that nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Renoncants of the Union
territory of Pondicherry.”
2. Savings.-
Nothing herein contained shall effect-
(a) the
capacity of any persons to act in the following matters (namely):- marriage,
dower, divorce and adoption;
(b) the
religion or religious rites and usages of any class of [citizens of India]; or
(c) the
capacity of any person who before this Act comes into force has attained
majority under the law applicable to him.
3. Age of majority of persons
domiciled in India.-
(1) Every
person domiciled in India shall attain the age of majority on his completing
the age of eighteen years and not before.
(2) In
computing the age of any person, the day on which he was born is to be included
as a whole day he shall be deemed to have attained majority at the beginning of
the eighteenth anniversary of that day.
