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  "publication_date": "19/07/2025",
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      "section_content": "1.  This Act may be called theKazis Act, 1880;"
    },
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      "section_content": "The1[Government] may from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, extend it to the whole or any part of the territories under its administration."
    },
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      "section_content": "2. Whenever it appears to the2[Government] that any considerable number of the3[Muslims] resident in any local area desire that one or more Kazis should be appointed for such local area, the4[Government] may, if it thinks fit, after consulting the principal5[Muslim] residents of such local area, select one or more fit persons and appoint him or them to be kazis for such local area.If any question arises whether any person has been rightly appointed kazi under this section, the decision thereof by the6[Government] shall be conclusive.The7[Government] may, if it thinks fit, suspend or remove any  kazi  appointed  under  this  section  who  is  guilty  of  any misconduct in the execution of his office, or who is for a continuous period of six months absent from the local area for which he is appointed, or leaves such local area for the purpose or leaves such local area for the purpose of residing elsewhere, or is declared an insolvent, or desires to be discharged from the office, or who refuses or becomes in the opinion of the8[Government] unfit, or personally incapable, to discharge the duties of the office."
    },
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      "section_content": "3. Any Kazi appointed under this Act may appoint one or more persons as his naib or naibs to act in his place in all or any of the matters appertaining to his office throughout the whole or in any portion of the local area for which he is appointed, and may suspend or remove any naib so appointed.When any Kazi is suspended or removed under section 2, his naib or naibs (if any) shall be deemed to be suspended or removed, as the case may be."
    },
    {
      "section_content": "4. Nothing herein contained, and no appointment made hereunder, shall be deemed-(a)\tto confer any judicial or administrative powers on any Kazi or Naib Kazi appointed hereunder; or(b)\tto render the presence of a Kazi or Naib Kazi necessary at the celebration of any marriage or the performance of any rite or ceremony; or(c)\tto prevent any person discharging any of the functions of a Kazi."
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      "footnote_text": "1The 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": "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 \"Muslims\" was substituted, for the word \"Muhammadans\" 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": "5The word \"Muslim\" was substituted, for the word \"Muhammadan\" 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": "6The 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": "7The 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": "8The word \"Government\" was substituted, for the words \"Provincial Government\" by theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973), section 3 and 2nd Schedule"
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