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B.K.GUPTA... (ADVISOR)     01 September 2012

Repeal of an act clarified and analysed

The Supreme Court in a judgment clarified  and analysed about repeal of an Act.The clarification and analysis would provide great help in putting up the case in view of contradictory observations and misinterpretations by advocates and by the courts too:


"11.   In this connection, we may usefully refer  to  the  decision  of  this
court in Bansidhar & Ors.  V.  State  of  Rajasthan  &  Ors.[3]  where  this
court was dealing with the question whether the proceedings for fixation  of
ceiling area with reference  to  the  appointed  date  i.e.  1/4/1966  under
Chapter III-B of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act,  1955  could  be  initiated  and
continued after coming into force of the Rajasthan Imposition of Ceiling  on
Agricultural Holdings Act which with effect from 1/1/1973  repealed  Section
5(6-A) and Chapter III-B of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955.  While  dealing
with this question, this court observed that when there is  a  repeal  of  a
statute accompanied by re-enactment of  a  law  on  the  same  subject,  the
provisions of the new enactment would have to be looked  into  not  for  the
purpose of ascertaining whether the consequences envisaged by Section  6  of
the GC Act ensued or not - but only for the purpose of  determining  whether
the provisions in the new statute  indicate  a  different  intention.   This
court further observed that a saving provision in  a  repealing  statute  is
not exhaustive of the rights and obligations so saved  or  the  rights  that
survive the repeal.  This court quoted a  paragraph  from  its  judgment  in
I.T. Commissioner  v.  Shah Sadiq & Sons [4] : (SCC  p.524,  para  15).   It
reads thus:

      “… In other words whatever rights are expressly saved by the ‘savings’
      provision stand saved.  But, that does not mean that rights which  are
      not saved by the ‘savings’ provision are extinguished  or  stand  ipso
      facto terminated by the mere fact that a new statute repealing the old
      statute is enacted.  Rights which have accrued are saved  unless  they
      are taken away expressly.  This is the principle behind Section  6(c),
      General Clauses Act, 1897. …”"



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