Short title. Extent.

Short title.—This Act may be called the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872. Extent.—It extends to the whole of India except the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Travancore-Cochin, Manipur. Provided that nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Renoncants of the Union territory of Pondicherry.