Transfer of Property Act, 1882
l. Short title
This Act may be called the Transfer of Property Act, 1882.
Commencement: It shall come into force on the first day of
July, 1882.
Extent: It extends in the first instance to the whole
of India except the territories which, immediately before the lst November,
1956, were comprised in Part B States or in the States of Bombay, Punjab and
Delhi.
But this Act or any part thereof may by notification in the
Official Gazette be extended to the whole or any part of the said territories
by the State Government concerned.
And any State Government may from time to time, by notification
in the Official Gazette, exempt, either retrospectively or prospectively, any
part of the territories administered by such State Government from all or any
of the following provisions, namely,-
Section 54, paragraph 2 and sections 3, 59, 107 and 123.
Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing part of this section,
section 54, paragraphs 2 and 3, and sections 59, 107 and 123 shall not extend
or be extended to any district or tract of country for the time being excluded
from the operation of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (XVI of 1908), under
the power conferred by the first section of that Act or otherwise.