Section 1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir, and applies also to
Hindus domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are outside the said territories









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