The Repealing and Amending Act, 2025

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED G.S.R. . . . . for General Statutory Rules.

THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2025

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THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2025 _______ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS ______ SECTIONS 1. THE FIRST SCHEDULE THE SECOND SCHEDULE 3

THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2025

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Section 1 — Short title.—This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025. 2. Repeal of certain enactments

Section 3 — Amendment of certain enactments

Section 4 — Savings

THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2025 ACT NO. 37 OF 2025 [20th December, 2025.] An Act to repeal certain enactments and to amend certain other enactments. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:– 1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025. Repeal of certain enactments.—The enactments specified in the First Schedule are hereby repealed. Amendment of certain enactments.—The enactments specified in the Second Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE

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THE FIRST SCHEDULE (See section 2) REPEALS Year Act No. Short Title 1 2 3 1886 XI The Indian Tramways Act, 1886. 1976 31 The Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Fund Act, 1976. 1978 41 The Britannia Engineering Company Limited (Mokameh Unit) and the Arthur Butler and Company (Muzaffarpore) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1978. 1982 36 The Chaparmukh-Silghat Railway Line and the Katakhal-Lalabazar Railway Line (Nationalisation) Act, 1982. 1984 55 The Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1984.

2019 27 The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment)

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1 2 3 2019 27 The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Act, 2019. 2019 32 The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019. 2019 38 The National Institute of Design (Amendment) Act, 2019. 2019 41 The Chit Funds (Amendment) Act, 2019. 2019 43 The Special Protection Group (Amendment) Act, 2019. 2021 28 The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Act, 2021.

2021 39 The National Commission for Homoeopathy (Amendment) Act,

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1 2 3 2021 39 The National Commission for Homoeopathy (Amendment) Act, 2021. 2021 43 The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Act, 2021. 2021 44 The High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 2021. 2021 49 The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021. 2022 8 The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Amendment) Act, 2022. 2023 19 The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2023.

THE SECOND SCHEDULE

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THE SECOND SCHEDULE (See section 3) AMENDMENTS Year Act No. Short Title Amendments 1 2 3 4 1897 10 The General Clauses Act, In section 27, for the words “registered 1897. post”, the words “speed post with registration” shall be substituted. 1908 5 The Code of Civil (i) In section 148A, in sub-section (2), for Procedure, 1908. the words “registered post, acknowledgement due”, the words “speed post with registration and proof of delivery” shall be substituted; (ii) In the First Schedule,— (a) in Order V, in rule 9,— (I) in sub-rule (3), for the words “registered post acknowledgement due, addressed to the defendant or his agent empowered to accept the service or by speed post”, the words “speed post with registration and proof of delivery addressed to the defendant or his agent empowered to accept the service” shall be substituted; (II) in sub-rule (4), the brackets and words “(except by registered post acknowledgment due)” shall be omitted; (III) in sub-rule (5), in the proviso, for the words “registered post acknowledgement due, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule shall be made notwithstanding the fact that the acknowledgement”, the words “speed post with registration and proof of delivery, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule shall be made notwithstanding the fact that the proof of delivery” shall be substituted; (b) in Order XXI, in rule 1, in sub-rule (2), for the words “registered post, acknowledgement due”, the words “speed post with registration and proof of delivery” shall be substituted; and (c) in Order XXXIX, in rule 3, in the proviso, in clause (a), for the words “registered post”, the words “speed post with registration” shall be substituted.

1925 39 The Indian Succession (i) In section 3, in sub-section (1), the

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1 2 3 4 1925 39 The Indian Succession (i) In section 3, in sub-section (1), the Act, 1925 figure “, 213” shall be omitted; (ii) section 213 shall be omitted; (iii) in section 370, (a) in sub-section (1), for the words and figures “or section 213 to be established by letters of administration or probate”, the words “to be established by letters of administration” shall be substituted; (b) in sub-section (2), clause (b) shall be omitted. 2005 53 The Disaster Management In section 30, in sub-section (2), in clause Act, 2005 (vi), for the word “prevention”, the word “preparation” shall be substituted. __________ 9

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS This Bill is one of those periodical measures by which enactments, which have ceased to be in force or have become obsolete or the retention whereof as separate Acts is unnecessary are repealed and by which certain amendments and formal defects detected in enactments are amended and corrected. The note on the Second Schedule explains the reasons for the amendments suggested in the Bill in respect whereof some detailed explanation is necessary. Clause 4 of the Bill contains a precautionary provision which it is usual to include in the Bill of this kind. NEW DELHI; The 12th December, 2025.