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(a)  affect any other enactment in which the repealed enactment 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(c)  affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or 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repealed; or 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 12
th

 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repealed; or 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derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed; or 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repealed; or 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.