Chapter VI§29–30
Savings and Repeals
Two short closing sections. §29 saves pre-1955 valid Hindu marriages, customs of dissolution, and pending proceedings; it also makes clear that the Act doesn't displace the Special Marriage Act, 1954 for marriages solemnised under that statute. §30 has itself been repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1960.
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Savings
Same-gotra/pravara/inter-caste pre-1955 marriages remain valid; customs of dissolution are preserved; pending nullity, annulment, dissolution and judicial-separation proceedings continue as if the Act had not been passed; Special Marriage Act, 1954 marriages between Hindus are untouched.
(1) A marriage solemnized between Hindus before the commencement of this Act, which is otherwise valid, shall not be deemed to be invalid or ever to have been invalid by reason only of the fact that the parties thereto belonged to the same gotra or pravara or belonged to different religions, castes or sub-divisions of the same caste.
(2) Nothing contained in this Act shall be deemed to affect any right recognised by custom or conferred by any special enactment to obtain the dissolution of a Hindu marriage, whether solemnized before or after the commencement of this Act.
(3) Nothing contained in this Act shall affect any proceeding under any law for the time being in force for declaring any marriage to be null and void or for annulling or dissolving any marriage or for judicial separation pending at the commencement of this Act, and any such proceeding may be continued and determined as if this Act had not been passed.
(4) Nothing contained in this Act shall be deemed to affect the provisions contained in the Special Marriage Act, 1954, (43 of 1954) with respect to marriages between Hindus solemnized under that Act, whether before or after the commencement of this Act.
[Repeals]
Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1960 (58 of 1960) — the original §30 had repealed certain pre-1955 enactments and is no longer on the statute book.
[Repeals].—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1960 (58 of 1960), s. 2 and the First Schedule.