Kerala Court of Wards Act, 1967

	Section Title
	INTRODUCTION
	PREAMBLE
	CHAPTER I : PRELIMINARY	View Judgements
1	Short title, extent and commencement	View Judgements
2	Act not to affect power of High Court over infants, idiots and lunatics	View Judgements
3	Definitions	View Judgements
	CHAPTER II : THE COURT OF WARDS	View Judgements
4	Court of Wards	View Judgements
5	Control of Government	View Judgements
6	Power of court to regulate procedure	View Judgements

7	Power of court how exercised	View Judgements
	CHAPTER III : ASSUMPTION OF SUPERINTENDENCE OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY	View Judgements
8	Disqualification	View Judgements
9	Immediate protection of disqualified heirs	View Judgements
10	Recovery of expenditure	View Judgements
11	Report by Collector	View Judgements
12	Proprietor to be given opportunity to be heard and to adduce evidence	View Judgements
13	Report by court	View Judgements
14	Government may declare proprietor disqualified and direct court to assume superintendence	View Judgements
15	Proprietor not to be declared disqualified under section 8 (c) unless on ground of public interest	View Judgements

16	Provision to meet cases of undivided Hindu family, Marumakkathayam tarwad, etc	View Judgements
17	Application by proprietor himself	View Judgements
18	Notification of assumption of superintendence	View Judgements
	CHAPTER IV : MANAGEMENT AND GUARDIANSHIP	View Judgements
19	Collector to take charge of ward's property	View Judgements
20	Power of collector	View Judgements
21	Allowances for ward and family	View Judgements
22	Custody, residence, education and marriage of ward or minor relatives	View Judgements
23	Appointment, etc., of managers and guardians	View Judgements
24	Collector to act if there are no managers or guardians	View Judgements

25	Who may and may not be guardians	View Judgements
26	Duties of guardians	View Judgements
27	Powers of manager	View Judgements
28	Duties of manager	View Judgements
29	Employees of court deemed to be public servants	View Judgements
30	Manager and other servants to be deemed to be public accountants	View Judgements
31	Regulation of expenditure	View Judgements
32	Surplus how to be dealt with	View Judgements
33	Disabilities of wards	View Judgements
34	Powers of court as to property under its superintendence	View Judgements

35	Establishments and distribution of charges	View Judgements
	CHAPTER V : ASCERTAINMENT AND SETTLEMENT OF DEBTS	View Judgements
36	Notice calling upon claimants to notify claims	View Judgements
37	Claimants to furnish full particulars and documents	View Judgements
38	Pecuniary claim of Government, etc., not affected	View Judgements
39	Claims admitted and disallowed	View Judgements
40	Claims not notified cease to carry interest, etc	View Judgements
41	Inadmissibility in evidence of documents not produced	View Judgements
42	When mortgagee in possession may be dispossessed	View Judgements
	CHAPTER VI : SUITS	View Judgements

43	Protection of action taken in good faith	View Judgements
44	Suit not to be instituted until after notice to Collector	View Judgements
45	Suit proceeding by or against ward	View Judgements
46	Costs against manager how paid	View Judgements
47	Suit must be authorised by court	View Judgements
48	Adjudication of civil disputes between two or more wards	View Judgements
	CHAPTER VII : RELELASE OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY FROM SUPERINTENDENCE	View Judgements
49	Release from superintendence	View Judgements
50	Release of estate taken under management under section 17 when debts cannot be liquidated within reasonable time	View Judgements
51	When estate taken under management under section 17 may be made over to proprietor	View Judgements

52	Option to retain superintendence in certain cases	View Judgements
53	Disabilities of proprietor in such cases	View Judgements
54	Appointment of guardian before release	View Judgements
55	Recovery of expenses after release	View Judgements
56	Procedure when succession to ward's property is disputed	View Judgements
57	Notification of release from superintendence	View Judgements
	CHAPTER VIII : MISCELLANEOUS	View Judgements
58	Power of court in regard to religious endowment of which ward is hereditary trustee or manager	View Judgements
59	Powers of persons holding inquiries	View Judgements
60	Property under charge of court and liable to sale for arrears	View Judgements

61	Power to make rules	View Judgements
	CHAPTER IX :	View Judgements
62	Abetting unsanctioned marriage of wards, etc	View Judgements
	CHAPTER X : REPEAL	View Judgements
63	Repeal	View Judgements

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Kerala Court of Wards Act, 1967