Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) Act, 2025

✅ Summary:

  • Section 1: Declares the short title and commencement date (effective from 9 April 2025).
  • Section 2: Repeals the Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923, but protects past actions and legal proceedings under the repealed Act.

Section 1.   Short title and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) Act, 2025.

(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

1. 9th day of April, 2025, vide notification No. S.O. 1676 (E), dated 9th day of April, 2025, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (ii).


Section 2. Repeal of Act 42 of 1923

(1) The Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923 is hereby repealed.
(2) The repeal by this Act shall not affect the previous operation of the Act so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder, or any obligation or liability accrued or incurred under the Act so repealed, or any legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such obligation or liability, as aforesaid, and any such legal proceeding or remedy may be continued or enforced as if this Act had not been passed.