Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations 1929
Individual Documents
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''Preamble. Whereas it is expedient to alter the order in which certain heirs of a Hindu male dying intestate are entitled to succeed to his estate; It is hereby enacted as follows:-
Application.
1. This Act applies only to persons who, but for the passing of this Act would have been subject to the law of Mitakshara in respect of the provisions herein enacted, and it applies to such persons in respect only of the property of males not held in coparcenary and not disposed of by will.
Order of succession of certain heirs.
2. A son’s daughter, daughter’s daughter, sister, and sister’s son shall, in the order so specified, be entitled to rank in the order of succession next after a father’s father and before a father’s brother:
Provided that a sister’s son shall not include a son adopted after the sister’s death.
Savings.
3. Nothing in this Act shall-
(a) affect any special family or local custom having the force of law, or
(b) vest in a son’s daughter, daughter’s daughter or sister an estate larger than, or different in kind from, that possessed by a female in property inherited by her from a male according to the school of Mitakshara law by which the male was governed, or
(c) enable more than one person to succeed by inheritance to the estate of a deceased Hindu male which by a customary or other rule of succession descends to a single heir...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via " "Union Attorney General's Office" vol. 11
Date of publication:
1929-02-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-05
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English
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''This Act shall extend to the whole of the Union of Burma.
2. In this Act. unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context.—
(a) " Board ” means a Board of Conciliation constituted under this Act ;
(f) “Court ” means a Court of Inquiry constituted under this Act ;
Trade Disputes. 279
1 (aa) award means any interim or final determination arrived at
by the Industrial Court in an arbitration proceeding arising out
of any reference to it under section 9 :
» (bb) “ Industrial Court " means the Court of Industrial Arbitration
constituted under section 8 :
1 (dd) “ Industry ” means—
(i) any business, trade, manufacture or undertaking or calling of
employers ; ~
(ii) any calling, service, employment, handicraft or industrial occupation or avocation of employees ...''
Source/publisher:
Government of Burma via "The Burma Code" vol. 11
Date of publication:
1929-05-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-05
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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2.14 MB
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