Section - 5. Adoptions to be regulated by this chapter

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(1) No adoption shall be made after the commencement of this Act by or to a Hindu except in accordance with the provisions contained in this Chapter, and any adoption made in contravention of the said provision shall be void.

(2) An adoption which is void shall neither create any rights in the adoptive family in favour of any person which he or she could not have acquired except by reason of the adoption, nor destroy the right of any person in the family of his or her birth.

COMMENTS
Adoption that takes place after the death of the husband contrary to the will of deceased husband and after the Act came into force it was held that, legality of the adoption is to be considered in accordance with the provision of Act, and the adoption cannot be held invalid just for the fact that it was against the directions as mentioned in the will of deceased husband.- Kavuluru V. Kuntamukkala 1971 (1) An. WR 134

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