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 SEC. 1] (3) Where the woman entitled to any property under sub-section (1) dies before receiving it, the heirs of the woman shall be entitled to claim it from the person holding it for the time being.

(4) Nothing contained in this section shall affect the provisions of section 3 or section 4.

7. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,-
 * (a) no court inferior to that of a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of the first class shall try any offence under this Act;
 * (b) no court shall take cognizance of any such offence except on a complaint made within one year from the date of the offence;
 * (c) it shall be lawful for a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of the first class to pass any sentence authorised by this Act on any person convicted of an offence under this Act.

8. Every offence under this Act shall be non-cognizable, bailable and non-compoundable.

9. (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

10. The Andhra Pradesh Dowry Prohibition Act, 1958, and the Bihar Dowry Restraint Act, 1950, are hereby repealed.

R. C. S. SARKAR, Secy. to the Govt. of India. PRINTED IN INDIA BY THE GENERAL MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, NEW DELHI AND PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 1961.