If a Hindu male of 30 years of age adopts a female child of 15 years of age, this adoption is

Section 11(iii) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 requires that when a male adopts a female, "the adoptive father is at least twenty-one years older than the person to be adopted"; here the gap is only fifteen years. Section 10(iv) also requires the child not to have completed fifteen years. Section 5(1) declares any adoption made in contravention of these provisions "shall be void", so it is neither voidable nor merely irregular.