A Collection of the Central Acts and Ordinances for the Year 1961

Abstract

Whereas it is expedient to remove from the Statute-book certain Central laws which have become obsolete or h;iv§ discharged their function; Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Proclamation of the seventh day of October, 1958, and in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 2 of the State' Arrangements Order, 1959, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Minister exercising the functions of President makes and promulgates the following Ordinance:- 1. Short title.—This Ordinance may be called the Repealing and Amending Ordinance, 1961. 2. Repeal of certain Central laws.—The Central Acts and Ordinances and the President’s Order specified in the First Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the fourth column thereof. 3. Amendment of certain Central laws.—(1) The Central Acts and Ordinances specified in the Second Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and in the mannec mentioned in the fourth column thereof. (2) Where this Ordinance requires that in any specified law, or in any section, or other portion of such law, certain words shall be substituted for certain othe words, or that certain words shall be omitted, that substitution or omission, as the case may be, shall, except where it is otherwise expressly provided, be made wherever the words referred to occur in that law or, as the case may be, in that section or portion. 4. Savings.—The repeal by this Ordinance of any Central Act or Ordinance shall not affect—■ (a) the operation of any Act or Ordinance so repealed or the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered thereunder ; or (b) any right, title, privilege, obligation or liability, acquired, accrued or incurred, thereunder or any release or discharge already granted 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 ; or (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any Act or Ordinance so repealed; or (id) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, title, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid nor shall the repeal of any Act or Ordinance by which the text of any law was amended by the express omission, insertion or substitution of any matter, affect the continuance of any such amendment unless a different intention was expressly stated in the Act or Ordinance by which the amendment was made ; nor shall this Ordinance revive or restore anything not in force or existing at the time of its commencement, or affect any law in which any Act or Ordinance hereby repealed has been applied, incorporated or referred to, or affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction-, form, or cause of pleading, practice, or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office of appointment, notwithstanding that they respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised or derived by, in or from any Act or Ordinance hereby repealed.