Section 3 — Savings.

3. Savings.- The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not- 

(a)  affect any other enactment in which the repealed enactment 
has been applied, incorporated or referred to; or 

(b)  receive 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; or 

(c)  affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or 
anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or 

(d)  affect any right, title, privilege, obligation or liability 
acquired, accrued or incurred under any enactment so 
repealed; or 

(e)  affect 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, 

                                                 
1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh 

(Extra-ordinary), dated the 12th April, 1975, p. 442. 



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or the proof of any past act or thing under any enactment so 
repealed; or 

(f)  affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, 
form or course or 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, or recognised or 
derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed; or 

(g)  affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of 
any offence committed against any enactment so repealed; or 

(h)  affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of 
any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture 
or punishment, as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal 
proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, 
and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed 
as if this Act had not been passed. 

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