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"act_title": "The Mussalman Wakf Validating Act, 1913",
"act_no": "VI",
"act_year": "1913",
"publication_date": "19/07/2025",
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"section_content": "1. (1) This Act may be called theMussalman Wakf Validating Act, 1913.(2) It extends to the whole of1[Bangladesh]."
},
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"section_content": "2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-(1)\t“Wakf” means the permanent dedication by a person professing the Mussalman faith of any property for any purpose recognized by the Musslman law as religious, pious or charitable.(2)\t“Hanafi Mussalman” means a follower of the Mussalman faith who conforms to the tenets and doctrines of the Hanafi school of Mussalman law."
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"section_content": "3. It shall be lawful for any person professing the Mussalman faith to create a wakf which in all other respects is in accordance with the provisions of Mussalman law, for the following among other purposes:-(a)\tfor the maintenance and support wholly or partially of his family, children or descendants, and(a)\twhere the person creating a wakf is a Hanafi Mussalman, also for his own maintenance and support during his lifetime or for the payment of his debts out of the rents and profits of the property dedicated:Provided that the ultimate benefit is in such cases expressly or impliedly reserved for the poor or for any other purpose recognized by the Mussalman law as a religious, pious or charitable purpose of a permanent character."
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"section_content": "4. No such wakf shall be deemed to be invalid merely because the benefit reserved therein for the poor or other religious, pious or charitable purpose of a permanent nature is postponed until after the extinction of the family, children or descendants of the person creating the wakf."
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"section_content": "5. Nothing in this Act shall affect any custom or usage whether local or prevalent among Mussalmans of any particular class or sect."
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"footnote_text": "1The word \"Bangladesh\" was substituted, for the word \"Pakistan\" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)."
}
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