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THE CASTE DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1850 1*
ACT NO. 21 OF 1850
[11th April, 1850.]
An Act for extending the principle of section 9, Regulation VII, 1832,
of the Bengal Code throughout 2*[India].
Preamble.--WHEREAS it is enacted by section 9, Regulation VII,
1832 (Ben. Reg. VII of 1832), of the Bengal Code, 3*that "whenever
in any civil suit the parties to such suit may be of different
persuasions, when one party shall be of the Hindu and the other of the
Muhammadan persuasion, or where one or more of the parties to the suit
shall not be either of the Muhammadan or Hindu persuasions the laws of
those religions shall not be permitted to operate to deprive such
party or parties of any property to which,
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1. Short title given by the Indian Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of
1897).
This Act has been extend to Berar by the Berar Laws Act,
1941 (4 of 1941) and has been declared to be in force in all the
Provinces of India, except the Scheduled Districts, by the Laws
Local Extent Act, 1874 (5 of 1874), s. 3.
It has been declared to be in force in the Sonthal Parganas
by the Sonathal Pargnas Settlement Regulation, 1872 (3 of 1872),
s. 3.
The Act has been extended to and brought into force in Dadra
and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and Sch. I (w.e.f. 1-7-
1965) and to the Union territory of Pondicherry by Act 26 of
1968, s. 3 and Sch.
It has been declared, by notification under s. 3 (a) of the
Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14of 1874), to be in force in the
following Scheduled Districts, namely:-
