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BURMA LAWS ACT.
( INDIA ACT XIII, 1898.)
( 4th November, 1898. )
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5. The President of the Union may, for administrative
including revenue purposes,-
(a) divide Upper Burma into divisions and
each of those divisions into districts, and vary the limits
of those divisions and districts, and
(b) divide each of those districts into sub-divisions,
each of those sub-divisions into townships and each of those
townships into circles, and vary the limits of these sub-divisions,
townships and circles.
6. For the purpose of facilitating the application
of any enactment for the time being in force in any part of
Upper Burma, any Court may construe the enactment which such
alterations, not affecting the substance, as may be necessary
or proper to adapt it to the matter before the Court.
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13. (1) Where in any suit or other proceeding in the Union
of Burma it is necessary for the Court to decide any question
regarding succession, inheritance, marriage or caste, or any
religious usage or institution,-
(a) the Buddhist law in cases where the
parties are Buddhists,
(b) the Muhammadan law in cases where the
parties are Mohammedans,
and
(c) the Hindu law in cases where the parties
are Hindus, shall from the rule of decision, except in so
far as such law has by enactment been altered or abolished,
or is opposed to any custom having the force of law.
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(3) In cases not provided for by sub-section
(1), or by any other enactment for the time being in force,
the decision shall be according to justice, equity and good
conscience.
14. (1) The Governor may, by notification
in the Gazette, transfer any portion of Upper Burma to Lower
Burma or any portion of Lower Burma to Upper Burma, with effect
from a date to be specified in the notification, and on and
with effect from that date, the portion so transferred shall
form part of Lower Burma or Upper Burma, as the case may be.
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1. Deleted by Act II, 1945.
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