The Jammu and Kashmir Hindu Disposition of Property Act, 1940

(a) This Act may be called the Hindu Disposition of Property Act, 1997.

(b) It extends to the whole State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Subject to the limitations and provisions specified in this Act, no disposition of property by a Hindu, whether by transfer inter vivos or 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.

The limitations and provisions referred to in section 2 shall, in respect of dispositions by transfer inter vivos, be those contained in Chapter II of the Jammu and Kashmir Transfer of Property Act.