Indian Trusts Act, 1882
1. Short title and commencement
This Act may be called the Indian Trusts Act, 1882; and it shall
come into force on the first day of March, 1882.
Local extent, Saving: It extends to the whole of India except
the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; but the
Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official
Gazette, extend it to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands or to any part thereof.
But nothing herein contained affects the rules of Mohammedan law as to waqf, or
the mutual relations of the members of an undivided family as determined by any
customary, or personal law, or applies to public or private religious or
charitable endowments or to trusts to distribute prizes taken in war among the
captors; and nothing in the Second Chapter of this Act applies to trusts
created before the said day.