5. Application of this Act to the Khoja community.

Where the 6[State Government] is of
opinion that the Khoja community in 7[the State] or any part thereof desire that the provisions of this
Act should be extended to such community 8[it] may by notification in the Official Gazette, declare
that the provisions of this Act, with the substitution of the word “Khojas” or “Khoja,” as the case
may be, for the word “Hindus” or “Hindu” wherever those words occur, shall apply to that
community in such area as may be specified in the notification, and this Act shall thereupon have
effect accordingly.

1. Subs. by Act 48 of 1959, s. 3 and Sch. I, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 1-2-1960).
2. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule
(w.e.f. 31-10- 2019).
3. The Act has been extended to Dadra and Nagar Havel i by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and Sch.
In its application to Pondicherry, in section 1, after sub-section (2), the following shall be inserted—“Provided
that nothing contained in this Act, shall apply to the Renoncants of the Union territory of Pondicherry. ”—(Vide
Act 26 of 1968).
4. Subs. by Act 21 of 1929, s. 12, for “sections 13, 14 and 20” .
5. Subs. by s. 12, ibid., for “sections 100 and 101 of the Indian Succession Act, 1865”.
6. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “G.G. in C.”.
7. Subs., ibid., for “British India”.
8. Subs., ibid., for “he”.