law: Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937
  2. Marriage between Arya Samajists not to be invalid 
  Notwithstanding any
  
  provision of Hindu Law, usage or custom to the contrary no marriage contracted
  
  whether before or after the commencement of this Act between two persons being
  
  at the time of the marriage Arya Samajists shall be invalid or shall be deemed
  
  ever to have been invalid by reason only of the fact that the parties at any
  
  time belonged to different castes or different sub-castes of Hindus or that
  
  either or both of the parties at any time before the marriage belonged to a
  
  religion other than Hinduism.
  Foot Notes
  1. Extended to and
  
  brought into force in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, with effect from 1st July, 1965 by Regulation 6 of 1963, section 2 and
  
  Schedule I.
  2. Substituted by the
  
  Adaptation of Laws 1950, for the former sub-section (2).
  3. Substituted by the
  
  Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for the words "Part B
  
  States".