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5. A Sikkimese woman married to a person who is not a Sikkim Subject shall have no

right to acquire any immoveable property or any interest in such property in the
territory of Sikkim subsequent to her marriage.

6. If a Sikkimese woman marries a person who is not a Sikkim Subject the husband
and any offspring born of that marriage shall acquire no interest in any immoveable

property which she may hold in Sikkim by virtue of Section 4 of this Regulation.

7. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary any immoveable

property in Sikkim which may be held by a Sikkimese woman at the time of her
marriage shall not on her death devolve on her husband, if she had been married to
a non-Sikkim Subject, nor shall it be by any offspring of such marriage.

8. Any immoveable property held by a Sikkimese woman married to a person who is
not Sikkim Subject as contemplated in Section 4 of this Regulation shall devolve on

her death and be inherited by such person or persons who would have been
regarded but for her marriage as her next of kin under the rules for intestate
succession, provided always the next of kin in order to succeed to such property is a

Sikkim Subject.

D. Dahdul
Chief Secretary,
Government of Sikkim.

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