THE PUDUCHERRY GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 1965

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THE PUDUCHERRY GENERAL CLAUSES 
ACT, 1965. 

(No. 13 of 1965) 
 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
 
 SECTION  
 
 1. Short title, extent and commencement.  
 2. General Clauses Act, 1897 to apply to Acts of the Legislative  
  Assembly of Puducherry.  
 

THE PUDUCHERRY GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 1965. 

(Act No. 13 of 1965) 
26th October, 1965.  

 
AN ACT 

 

to provide for the application of the General Clauses Act, 1897 for the  
 interpretation of the Acts of the Legislature of the Union territory of   
 Puducherry.  
 

 BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly in the Sixteenth Year of the 
Republic of India as follows:  -  
 

 1. Short title, extent and commencement. – (1) This Act may be called the 
Puducherry General Clauses Act, 1965. 

  (2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Puducherry.  

       + (3) It shall come into force at once.  
 

 2. General Clauses Act, 1897 to apply to Acts of the Legislative Assembly of 
Puducherry. – Unless the context otherwise requires, the General Clauses Act, 
1897 (Central Act  10 of 1897), shall apply for the interpretation of the Acts of the 
Legislature of the Union territory of Puducherry (whether enacted before or after 
the commencement of this Act), as it applies for the interpretation of a Central Act.  
 
 
  + This Act came into force w.e.f  30.10.965  

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