The Central Provinces Court of Wards Act, 1899

(1) This Act may be called the Central Provinces Courtof Wards Act, 1899. (2) It extends to the territories for the time being administered by the Local Government of the CentralProvinces; and (3) It shall come into force at once.

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) the expression "Government ward" means any person of whose property, or of whose personand property, the Court of Wards may, for the time being, have the superintendence under this Act; (b) "land" includes the rights of a land-holder in respect of the land of which he is the malguzar orzamindar or the muafidar, jagirdar, ubaridar or other assignee of land-revenue, or in which he isinterested; and (c) "land-holder" means a malguzar as defined in the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881,XVIII of 1881, and the zamindar of any zamindari in a Scheduled District, and includes a muafidar,jagirdar, ubaridar or other assignee of land-revenue, and any person not hereinbefore specified who isinterested in land and belongs to a class of which the Local Government, with the previous sanctionof the Governor General in Council, has declared the members to be land-holders for the purposes ofthis Act.

Subject to the provisions of section 9, the Commissionershall be the Court of Wards for the limits of his division.

The Court ofWards may, with the previous sanction of the Local Government, assume the superintendence of theproperty of any land-holder owning land within the local limits of its jurisdiction who is disqualified tomanage his property.

(1) The following persons shall, forthe 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 managingtheir affairs; and (c) persons declared by the Local Government to be incapable of managing their property owingto-- (i) any physical or mental defect or infirmity; (ii) their having been convicted of a non-bailable offence and being unfitted by vice or badcharacter; or (iii) their being females. (2) No suit shall be brought in any Civil Court in respect of any declaration made by the LocalGovernment under sub-section (1), clause (c).