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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 31st January, 2019/Shravana 9, 1941 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 31st July, 2019, and is hereby published for general information:—

THE MUSLIM WOMEN (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ON MARRIAGE) ACT, 2019

No. 20 OF 2019

[31st July, 2019.]

An Act to protect the rights of married Muslim women and to prohibit divorce by pronouncing talaq by their husbands and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows—

CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY

Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of September, 2018.

Definitions. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) "electronic form" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (r) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 200021 of 2000.;

(b) "Magistrate" means a Judicial Magistrate of the first class exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 19732 of 1974., in the area where the married Muslim woman resides; and