Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Court of Wards Act, 1951.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of Rajasthan.
3. (3) It shall come into force at once.

1. (1) The laws and enactments specified in the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.
2. (2) But all rules and appointments made, notifications and orders issued, authorities and powers conferred, farms and leases granted, rights acquired, liabilities incurred, and other things done under the laws and enactments hereby repealed shall so far as may be, be deemed to have been made, issued, conferred, granted, acquired, incurred and done under this Act.
3. (3) Any enactment or document referring to the laws and enactments hereby repealed shall, so far as may be, be construed to refer to this Act or the corresponding portion thereof.

The General Clauses Act, 1897, of the Central Legislature shall mutatis mutandis apply, so far as may be, to this Act, as it applies to a Central Act.

In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context-

1. (i) "estate" means any land or interest in land held by a person under a State grant, including any other properties held by such grantee;
2. (ii) "Government" means the Government of Rajasthan;
3. (iii) "minor" means a person who, under section 3 of the Indian Majority Act, 1875, has not attained his majority;
4. (iv) "landholder" means a person holding an estate;
5. (v) "prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or the rules made thereunder;
6. (vi) "state grant" means a grant of land or an interest therein made by the Ruler or the Government of a covenanting State or recognised or declared by Government as having been so made;
7. (vii) "ward" means a disqualified landholder whose person or estate or any part of whose estate is under the superintendence of the Court of Wards or a land holder in regard to whose estate a declaration has been made under section 10.