law: Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937
  1. Short title and extent 
  (1) This Act may be
  
  called the Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937.
   2  [(2) It extends to the
  
  whole of  India except 3[the
  
  territories which, immediately before the
  
   1st November, 1956 , were comprised in Part B States] and applies also to
  
  citizens of  India wherever they may
  
  be.]