The Special Marriage Act, 1954
(1) This Act may be called the Special Marriage Act, 1954. (2) It extends to the whole of India ***, and applies also to citizens of India domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are [in the State of Jammu and Kashmir]. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Special Marriage Act, 1954, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1387/1/A1954-43E.pdf, 377,569 bytes, sha256 8edbdc1c6178de27...) 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. This PDF prints its amendment footnotes at body height, so sections 3 to 7 were re-extracted from the source line stream and their numbering restored (D-058). Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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