The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 · Ch. I — PRELIMINARY
Section 1 — Short title and extent
(1)This Act may be called the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of India ***.
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The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 · Ch. I — PRELIMINARY
(1)This Act may be called the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of India ***.
Sections of the HAMA are not classified one by one by any First Schedule. Part II of the First Schedule to the BNSS classifies offences under every other law by the punishment they carry — and the CRPC’s First Schedule sets out the same three bands.
If punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for more than 7 years.
If punishable with imprisonment for 3 years and upwards but not more than 7 years.
If punishable with imprisonment for less than 3 years or with fine only.
Read it against the punishment in the section above. Vidhara does not place a section in a band for you — that turns on the exact wording of its punishment, which is the section’s to say and not ours.
And a special or local law may provide otherwise: see BNSS section 5, which saves any special jurisdiction, power or procedure another law lays down.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1638/1/AA1956____78.pdf, 146,411 bytes, sha256 5503d94a84375aba...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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