LawgistThe Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act
24Appointment of delegates
(1) The State Governments, shall, in the Presidency-towns and districts subject to their respective governments, respectively appoint persons to be delegates to aid in the adjudication of cases arising under this Act, after giving the local parsis an opportunity of expressing their opinion in such manner as the respective Governments may think fit.
(2) The persons so appointed shall be Parsis, their names shall be published in the Official Gazette and their number shall, within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of a High Court, be not more than thirty, and in districts beyond such limits, not more than twenty.
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III.--PARSI MATRIMONIAL COURTS
- 18 Constitution of Special Courts under the Act
- 19 Parsi Chief Matrimonial Courts
- 20 Parsi District Matrimonial Courts
- 21 Power to alter territorial jurisdiction of District Courts
- 22 Certain districts to be within jurisdiction of the Chief Matrimonial Court
- 23 Court seal
- 24 Appointment of delegates
- 25 Power to appoint new delegates
- 26 Delegates to be deemed public servants
- 27 Selection of delegates under sections 19 and 20 to be from those appointed under section 24
- 28 Practitioners in Matrimonial Courts
- 29 Court in which suits to be brought
