The Punjab Laws (Extension No. 5) Act, 1958

1958 Pb. Act No. 30] THE PUNJAB LAWS (EXTENSION
NO. 5) AСт, 1958

ITHE PUNJAB LAWS (EXTENSION NO. 5)
ACT, 1958

(PUNJAB ACT No. 30 OF 1958)

[Received the assent of the President on the 3rd

November, 1958 and was first published for general

information in the Punjab Government Gazette

(Extraordinary) dated the 7th November, 1958.]

An Act to provide for the extension of certain

laws to the territories which, immediately. before

the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the

State of patiala and East Punjab States Union.

BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State

of Punjab in the Ninth Year of the Republic of
India as follows :-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab

Laws (Extension No. 5) Act, 1958.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. In this Act-

(a) "Schedule" means a Schedule appended

to this Act;

(b) "transferred territories" means the terri-

tories which, immediately before the 1st

November. 1956, were comprised in the

State of Patiala and East Punjab States

Union.

3. The Punjab General Clauses Act, 1898,

shall apply for the interpretation of this Act as

it applies for the interpretation of a Punjab
Act.

1. For statement of Objects and Reasons, see 
Punjab Government Gazette

(Extraordinary), 1958, page 1494.

Short title and
commeneemenr.

Definition

Interpretation



Extension of
certain laws to
transferred
territories.

Construction of
certain references.

Repeals and
savings.:

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4. (1) All the enactments, as amended fromtime to time, specified in Schedule i and so muchof any of the enactments, as amended from time
to time, specified in Schedule II as extends to theterritories which, immediately before the 1stNovember, 1956, were comprised in the State ofPunjab and relates to matters with respect to whichthe State Legislature has power to make laws fora State, and all rules, regulations, notificaiions,orders and by-laws made, and all directions orinstructions issued, thereunder which are in forceimmediately before the commencement of this Actin the said territories, are hereby extended to, andshall be in force in, the transferred territories.

(2) The anendments specified in ScheduleI shall be made in the aforesaid enactments.

5. In the enactments, or rules, regulations,notifications, orders and by-laws made, and direc-tions or instructions issued, thereunder, as referredto in section 4, any reference-

(1) to a law which is not in force in the
transferred territories shall in relation
to such teri itories, be construed as areference to the corresponding law, if
any, in force in such territories; and

(2) o the state of Punjab, by whatever formof words, shall be construed as inclu-ding a reference to the transferredterritories.

6. If immediately before the commencementof this Act, there is in force in the transferredterritories any law corresponding to any of theenactments or rules, regulations, notifications, ordersand by-laws made, and directions or instructionsissued, thereunder, extended to those territories bysection 4, that law, including the enactments speci-fied in Schedule III shail on the commencement



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of this Act, save as otherwise expressly provided in
this Act, stand repealed :

Provided that such repeal shall not affect-

(a) the previous operation of any law so re-

pealed or anything duly done or suffered

thereunder; or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability

acquired or incurred under any law so

repealed; or

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment

incurred in respect of any offence commit-

ted against any law so repealed; or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or

remedy in respect of any such right,

privilege, obligation, liability, penalty,

forfeiture or punishment as afore said;

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:

Provided further that anything done or any
action taken under any law so repealed shall be
deemed to have been done or taken under the corres-

ponding provision of the enactment extended by
section 4 to the transferred territories, and shall

continue to be in force accordingly, unless and
until superseded by anything done or any action

taken under the enactment so extended.



Powers of
courts and
other authori-
ties for purposes
of facilitating
application of
the enactments
specified in
schedule Ior II
or rules, etc.

Power to make
rules, etc., not
to be affected.

Power to
remove

difficulties.

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7. For purposes of facilitating the application
in the transferred territories of any enactment
specified in Schedule I or Schedule II or of any
rule, regulation, notification, order, by-law, direc-
tion or instruction referred to in section 4, any
court or other authority may construe the same
with such alterations, not affecting the substante,
as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the
matter before the court or other authority.

8. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect
the power of the State Government or of any
officer or authority, exercisable under the enact-
ments specified in Schedules I and II, to add to,
amend, vary or rescind the rules, regulations,
notifications, orders and by-laws made, and direc-
tions or instructions issued, as extended by section
4 to the transferred territories.

9. If any difficuly arises in giving effect in
the transferred territories to the provisions of any
enactment specified in Schedule I or Schedule II.
the State Government may, by order notified in the
Official Gazette, make such provisions or give such
directions as appear to it to be necessary or
expedient for the remeval of the difficulty.

SCHEDULE I

EXTENSION OF PUNJAB ACTS

(See Section 4)

Serial

No.

Year Number of
the Act

Short title Amendments

1 2 3 4

1 1916 (II of 1916) The Punjab Medical
Registration Act, 1916.

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Serial Year

No.

Number of

the Act

Short title Amendments

1 2 3 4 5

2 1918 (VIII of 1918) The Punjab Village and
Small Towns Patrol Act,

1918.

3 1932 (I of 1932)

4 1949 (XXVIll of

19 49)

Te Pinjab Nurses Re-

gistration Act, 1932.

The Cole of Criminal

Procedure (East Pu njab

Amend mcnt) Act, 1949.

Section 197-A of
the Act shall be

renumbered as

section 197-В.

Serial

No.

Year

SCHEDULE II

EXTENSION OF CENTRAL ACTS

(See Section 4)

Number of
the Act

1 1861 (V of 1861)

2 1887 (IX of 1887)

3 1895 (xV of 1895)

4 1911 (Xof 1911)

5 1916 (VII of 1916)

6 1920 (V of 1920)

7 1920 (XXXII of

1920)

8 1948 (VIII of 1948)

Short tit le

The Police Act, 1861 as

amended by East Punjab
Act No. XXX of 1948.

The Provincial Small Cause

Courts Act, 1887.

Thc Government Grants

Act, 1895.

The Preventionof Sedi-

tions Mcetings Act, 1911.

The Indian Medical Degrees

Act, 1916.

The Provincial Insolvency

Act, 1920, as amended

by Punjab Act (IX of
1939).

The Identification of Pri-

soners Act, 1920.

The Pnarmacy Act, 1948.

Amendments



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the ActNo.

SCHEDULE III

REPEAL

(See Section 6)

Short title Amendments

1 1939 (Nofification
No. 11 of

22nd Janu-

ary, 1938)

The Patiala Government

Ministry of Law and
Appeal notification, dated
22nd January, 1938, ар-
plying the provisions of
the Provincial Insolcency
Act, 1920, to the erst-
while Patiala Stats.

2 1981 (II of 1981 Bk.)
Bk.

3 1985 (II of 1985 Bk.)
Bk.

4 1997 (XII of 1997 Вk.)
Bk.

3 1999 (III of 1999 Bk.)
Bk.

6 2005 (I of 2095 Bk.)
Bk.

The Patiala Village and
Small Towns Patrol Act,
1981 Bk.

The Patiala Police Act,
1985 Bk.

The Patiala Small Cause
Courts Act, 1997 Bk.

The Patiala Medical Degrees
Act, 1999.

The Patiala Governmənt

Grants Act, 2005 Bk.