§16 — Presumption as to registered documents relating to adoption

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Uttar Pradesh. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• Uttar Pradesh[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 57 of 1976, s. 35]Read →Hide

  Uttar Pradesh Amendment of section 16 of Act 78 of 1956.—In the Hindu Adaptation and Maintenance Act, 1956, section 16 shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof, and after sub-section (1) as so re-numbered the following sub-section shall be inserted namely:-- “(2) In case any adoption made on or after the first day of January, 1977 no Court in Uttar Pradesh shall accept any evidence in proof of the giving and taking of the child in adoption, except a document recording an adoption, made and signed by the person giving and the person taking the child in adoption, and registered under any law for the time being in force; Provided that secondary evidence of such document shall be admissible in the circumstances and the manner laid down in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872).”.

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