Indian Succession Act, 1925 · Chapter I: Preliminary
Section 3: Power of State Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the State from operation of Act
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, either retrospectively from the sixteenth day of March, 1865, or prospectively, exempt from the operation of any of the following provisions of this Act, namely, sections 5 to 49, 58 to 191, 212, 213 and 215 to 369, the members of any race, sect or tribe in the State, or of any part of such race, sect or tribe, to whom the State Government considers it impossible or inexpedient to apply such provisions or any of them mentioned in the order.
(2) The State Government may, by a like notification, revoke any such order, but not so that the revocation shall have retrospective effect.
(3) Persons exempted under this section or exempted from the operation of any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 18651(10 of 1865), under section 332 of that Act are in this Act referred to as "exempted persons".
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 15 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 3
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N.P. Saseendran v. N.P. Ponnamma & Ors.
The question to be decided herein is twin fold, whether the document of the year 1985 is a gift or Settlement or Will and whether the requirements under law or conditions in the deed have been satisfied to vest a legal…
- Shayara Bano v. Union of India and Others
- P.K. Mohan Ram v. B.N. Ananthachary and Ors.
- Ahmedabad Women Action Group and Ors. Etc. v. Union of India
- Madhu Kishwar and Ors. Etc. v. State of Bihar and Ors.