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12.10.1962: MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY REGULATION, 1962

Home Department
Notification No. 1155/H
Dated Gangtok, the 12 October 1962.
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[Published in Sikkim Durbar Gazette dated 12.10.1962]

The following proclamation of His Highness the Maharaja of Sikkim is hereby
notified:-

Whereas it is expedient to provide for the rights of Sikkimese women married
to persons other than Sikkim Subjects to acquire, hold and dispose of immoveable
property in Sikkim and to provide for rules of succession to property held by such

Sikkimese women.

NOW THEREFORE His Highness the Maharaja of Sikkim has been pleased to make
and promulgate the following Regulation:-

1. Short title and extent.-

(i) This Regulation may be called Married Women’s Property Regulation, 1962.

(ii) It shall extend throughout the territory of Sikkim.

2. This Regulation shall come into force on such date as may be appointed for the
purpose by His Highness the Maharaja of Sikkim.

3. In this regulation the term (a) “Sikkimese” means a person who is a Sikkim Subject
at the time of her marriage,

(b) “Law” means Statutes, regulations, rules and includes customary law.

4. A Sikkimese woman who hold immoveable property in Sikkim at the time of her
marriage shall continue to hold such property notwithstanding her marriage with a

person who is not a Sikkim Subject and shall have the power to dispose of such
property either by sale, mortgage or otherwise to a Sikkim Subject during her life-

time.

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