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The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956

§1Short title and extent

(1) This Act may be called the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of India *** and applies also to Hindus domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are outside the said territories.

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1649/1/195632.pdf, 58,917 bytes, sha256 59087d51afc03591...) 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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