Proceedings by or against joint families, etc.

(1) Where, in any proceeding under this Act, a joint family is a party, it shall be sufficient to implead the manager, karanavan or yajaman and the senior most male member of such family and, in the case of a maramakkathayam or aliyasanthana family, also the karanavan or yajaman of each tavazhi or kavaru, but any other member of the family shall have the right to get himself impleaded as a party.

(2) Where any such proceeding relates to any property or party thereof under the management of a receiver appointed by a court, it shall be sufficient to implead the receiver as party to the proceeding and notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, it shall not be necessary to obtain the permission of the court, which appointed the receiver for so impleading him.

(3) The provisions of this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other provision of this Act.