Amendment of section 2

Amendment of section 2.—In section 2 of the Valiamma Thampuran Kovilakam Estate and the Palace Fund (Partition) Act, 1961 (16 of 1961) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—

1. (a) for clause (c), the following clause shall be, and shall be deemed to have been, substituted with effect on and from the 28 th day of December, 1971, namely: - “(c) ‘family' means the Marumakathayam joint family consisting of the four main thavazhies of the Ruler of the former State of Cochin within the meaning of cause

1. (22) of article 366 of the Constitution of India;”;
   • (b) in clause (d), the words “of the Maharaja of Cochin” shall be, and shall be deemed to have been, omitted with effect on and from the 28 th day of December, 1971.