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(1) This act may be called the Charitable and Religious Trusts Act, 1920. (2) It extends1 to the whole of India [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir]: Provided that the [Government of any State] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that this Act, or any specified part thereof, shall not extend to [that State or any specified area therein] or to any specified trust or class of trusts. This Act has been extended to Berar by the Berar Laws Act, 1941 (4 of 1941) and rep. in Orissa by the Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1939 (Orissa 4 of 1939). The provisions of this Act, insofar as they are inconsistent with the provisions of the Bengal Wakf Act, 1934 (Ben. 13 of 1934), do not apply to any Wakf property in Bengal: see section 81 of that Act. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, sec. 3 and Sch., for "except Part B States". Subs. by the A.O. 1937 for "G.G. in C.". Subs. by the A.O. 1937., for "any specified province or area".