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      "section_content": "1.(1) This Act may be called theHindu Disposition of Property Act, 1916.(2) \tIt extends to the whole of1[Bangladesh]."
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      "section_content": "2.\tSubject to the limitations and provisions specified in this Act, no disposition of property by a Hindu, whether by transfer inter vivos 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."
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      "section_content": "3. \tThe limitations and provisions referred to in section 2 shall be the following, namely:-(a) \tin respect of dispositions by transfer inter vivos, those contained in Chapter II of theTransfer of Property Act, 1882, and(b) \tin respect of dispositions by will, those contained in sections 113, 114, 115 and 116 of theSuccession Act, 1925."
    },
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      "section_content": "4. \t[Repealed by section 12 of the Transfer of Property (Amendment) Supplementary Act, 1929 (Act No. XXI of 1929).]"
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      "section_content": "5. \tWhere the2[Government] is of opinion that the Khoja community in3[Bangladesh] or any part thereof desire that the provisions of this Act should be extended to such community, 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."
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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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      "footnote_text": "2The word \"Government\" was substituted, for the words \"Provincial Government\" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)"
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      "footnote_text": "3The word \"Bangladesh\" was substituted, for the words \"the Province\" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)"
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