Indian Telegraph Act : Application of Act to Presidency towns. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Telegraph Act,1885

Act No : 13

Section : Application of Act to Presidency towns.

1*[34.Application of Act to Presidency towns. (1) This Act,in its application to the Presidency-towns, shall be read as if for the words "District Magistrate" in section 16, sub-section (1), and section 17, sub-sections (2) and (3), for the words "Magistrate of the first or second class" in section 18, sub-section (1), 2*[and section 19A, sub- section (2)] and for the word "Magistrate" in section 18, sub-section (2), there had been enacted the words "Commissioner of Police", and for the words "District Judge" in section 16. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Ins. by Act 11 of 1888, s. 1. 2 Ins. by Act 7 of 1914, s. 10. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 sub-sections (3), (4) and (5), the words "Chief Judge of the Court of Small Causes 1* * * * * * *. (3) The fee in respect of an application to the Chief Judge of a Presidency Court of Small Causes Under sub-section (3) of section 16 shall be the same as would be payable under the Court-fees Act, 1870, (7 of 1870). in respect of such an application to a District Judge beyond the limits of a Presidency-town, and fees for summonses and other processes in proceedings before the Chief Judge under sub- section (3) or sub-section (4) of that section shall be payable according to the scale set forth in the Fourth Schedule to the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882.(15 of 1882.)].