The Repealing and Amending Act, 2015

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED

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

THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2015

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THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2015 _________ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS _________ SECTIONS 1.

An Act to repeal certain enactments and to amend certain other enactments.

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Section 1 — Short title. — This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending Act, 2015. 2. Repeal of certain enactments

Section 3 — Amendment of certain enactments

Section 4 — Saving

THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2015 ACT NO. 17 OF 2015 [13th May, 2015.] An Act to repeal certain enactments and to amend certain other enactments. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 1. Repeal of certain enactments.— The enactments specified in the First Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the fourth column thereof. Amendment of certain enactments.— The enactments specified in the Second Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof. Saving.— The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any Act in which such enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to; and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing; nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed; nor shall the repeal by this Act of any enactment provide or restore any jurisdiction, office, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure or other matter or thing not now existing or in force.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE

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THE FIRST SCHEDULE (See Section 2) REPEALS Year No. Short title Extent of repeal 1897 4 The Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 The whole. 1947 47 The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1947 The whole. 1978 49 The Sugar Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) The whole. Act, 1978 1999 30 The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1999 The whole. 1999 33 The Indian Majority (Amendment) Act, 1999 The whole.

Year No. Short title Extent of repeal

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Short title Extent of repeal 2004 3 The Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2003 The whole. 2005 4 The Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) The whole. Act, 2004 2005 39 The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 The whole. 2006 31 The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) The whole. Amendment Act, 2006 2008 9 The Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2008 The whole. 2008 10 The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, The whole.

THE SECOND SCHEDULE

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THE SECOND SCHEDULE (See section 3) AMENDMENTS Year No. Short title Amendments 2013 25 The Prohibition of Employment as Manual In the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 1, for Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, the words “the notification”, the words “the 2013 said notification” shall be substituted. 2014 17 The Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011 (a) In the Enacting Formula, for the words “Sixty-second Year”, the words “Sixty-fifth Year” shall be substituted; and (b) in sub-section (1) of section 1, for the figures “2011”, the figures “2014” shall be substituted.

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 unnessary are repealed or by which the formal defects detected in enactments are corrected. The notes which follow explain the reasons for the amendments suggested in such of those items of 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.