Section 5Land-holders to be deemed disqualified in certain cases

Section 5: Land-holders to be deemed disqualified in certain cases

5. Land-holders to be deemed disqualified in certain cases

(1)

The following persons shall, for the purposes of section 4, be deemed to be disqualified to manage their own property, namely:—

(a)

minors;

(b)

persons adjudged by a competent Civil Court to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing their affairs; and

(c)

persons declared by the Local Government to be incapable of managing their property owing to—

(i)

any physical or mental defect or infirmity;

(ii)

their having been convicted of a non-bailable offence and being unfitted by vice or bad character; or

(iii)

their being females.

(2)

No suit shall be brought in any Civil Court in respect of any declaration made by the Local Government under sub-section (1), clause (c).