Extent and application

(i) It shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1929. (ii) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu. (iii) It applies to testamentary dispositions by Mappillas governed by the Marumakkattayam or the Aliyasantana Law of Inheritance in respect of property which, but for such testamentary disposition, would devolve in accordance with the provisions of the Mappilla Succession Act, 1918.