The Jammu and Kashmir Majority Act, 1920

(1) This Act may be called the Majority Act, 1977. (2) It extends to the whole of Jammu and Kashmir State. It shall come into force on the 1st day of Baisakh, 1978.

Nothing herein contained shall affect— (a) the capacity of any person to act in the following matters, namely,—marriage, dower, divorce, and adoption; (b) the religion or religious rites and usages of any class of the state subjects in the State; (c) the capacity of any person who, before this Act comes into force, has attained majority under the law applicable to him.

Subject as aforesaid, every minor of whose person or property or both a guardian, other than a guardian for a suit within the meaning of order XXXII of the Code of Civil Procedure, has been or shall be appointed or declared by any Court of Justice before the minor has attained the age of eighteen years, and every minor of whose property the superintendence has been or shall be assumed by any Court of Wards before the minor has attained that age shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment, be deemed to have attained his majority when he shall have completed his age of twenty-one years and not before. Subject as aforesaid, every other person domiciled in the State shall be deemed to have attained his majority when he shall have completed his age of eighteen years and not before.

In computing ,the age of any person, the day on which ha was born is to be includa as a whole day, and he shall be deemed to have attained majority, if he falls wiW the first paragraph of section 3, at the beginning of the twenty-first anniversary of &hat day, and if he f& *in the second paragraph of section 3, d the beginning d the eighteenth d v m a r y af W day.

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(a) Z is born in the State on the first day of Baisakh 1950, and has a State domicile. A guardian of his person is appointed by a Court of Justice. Z attains majority at the first moment of the first day of Balskh 1971.

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(c) 2 k barn on the first day of Baisakh 1950. He wqub a domicile h the State. No guardian is appinted of his pmm or pro- perty by any Court of Justice, nor is he under the j- d any Court of Wards. Z attains majority at the first moment of the lint day of h i d h 1968.