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    "id": 13551,
    "slug": "arunachal-pradesh-interpretation-and-general-clauses-act-1982",
    "title": "Arunachal Pradesh Interpretation and General Clauses Act, 1982",
    "short_title": "Arunachal Pradesh Interpretation and General Clauses Act, 1982",
    "act_number": "Act No. 3 of 1982",
    "act_year": 1982,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Arunachal Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Arunachal Pradesh Interpretation and General Clauses Act, 1982",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Application of Act.",
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            "content": "Chapter II\nDefinitions",
            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"abet\" , with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860);\n(2) \"act\" , used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts as well as a single act, and words which refer to acts done extend also to illegal omissions;:\n(3) \"Administrator\" means the Administrator of Arunachal Pradesh appointed by the President of India under the provisions of Article 239 of the Constitution ;\n(4) \"affidavit\" means a statement in writing, signed by the person making it and confirmed by oath ;\n(5) \"Arunachal Pradesh\" means the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh as formed under Section 7 of the North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act, 1971 ;\n(6) \"Arunachal Pradesh Act \" means an Act passed by the Legislature of Arunachal Pradesh ;\n(7) \"Arunachal Pradesh enactment\" means the Arunachal Pradesh Act and includes the Arunachal Pradesh Ordinance and Regulation as hereinafter defined ;\n(8) \"Arunachal Pradesh Ordinance\" means an Ordinance promulgated by the Administrator under Art. 239-B of the Constitution ;\n(9) \"Attested\" in relation to a document, means attested by a witness who has seen the executant sign the document or has received from the executant a personal acknowledgment of his signature, and who has signed the document in the presence of the executant, but no particular form of attestation shall be necessary ;\n(10) \"Central Act\" means an Act of Parliament, and includes-,\n(a) an Act of the Dominion Legislature or of the Indian Legislature passed before the commencement of the Constitution ; and\n(b) an Act passed before such commencement, by the Governor-General-in-Council or the Governor-General, acting in a Legislative capacity;\n(11) \"Central Government\" -\n(a) in relation to anything done before the commencement of the Constitution, means the Governor-General-in-Council, as the case may be, and incudes-\n(i) in relation to functions entrusted under sub-Section (1) of Section 124 of the Government of India Act, 1935, to the Government of a Province, the Provincial Government acting within the scope of the authority given to it under that sub-section ; and\n(ii) in relation to the administration of a Chief Commissioner's Province, the Chief Commissioner acting within the scope of the authority given to him under sub-Section (3) of Section 94 of the said Act; and\n(b) in relation to anything done or to be done after the commencement of the Constitution, means the President, and includes, in relation to the administration of a Union territory, the Administrator thereof acting within the scope of the authority given to him under Article 239 of the Constitution;\n(12) \"Chapter\" means a chapter of the enactment in which the word occurs;\n(13) \"child\" in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, includes an adopted child ;\n(14) \"clause\" occurring in a section which has no sub-section, means a sub-division of that section, and occurring in a sub-section means a sub-division of that sub-section ;\n(15) \"Collector\" means the Chief Officer in-charge of the revenue administration of a district and include a Deputy Commissioner ;\n(16) \"commencement\" used with reference to an enactment, means the day on which the enactment comes into force ;\n(17) \"Commissioner\" means the Chief Officer incharge of the revenue administration of a division ;\n(18) \"Constitution\" means the Constitution of India ;\n(19) \"Consular Officer\" includes consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent, pro-consul and any other person for the time being authorised to perform the duties of a consul-general, consul, vice-consul or consulars agent;\n(20) \"daughter\" in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, includes an adopted daughter ;\n(21) \"day\" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight;\n(22) \"Deputy Commissioner\" means the Chief Officer incharge of the general administration of a district;\n(23) \"District Court\" or the principal Civil court of original jurisdiction, means the court of Deputy Commissioner or Additional Deputy Commissioner ; but does not include the High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction ;\n(24) \"District judge\" means the Judge of a District Court, and includes an Additional District Judge;\n(25) \"document\" includes any matter written, expressed, inscribed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means which is intended to be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter ;\n(26) \"enactment\" means the Arunachal Pradesh enactment and includes any provision contained therein ;\n(27) \"father\" in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption,includes an adoptive father;\n(28) \"financial year\" mean the year commencing on the first day of April ;\n(29) \"good faith\" , a thing shall be deemed to be done in good faith, where it is in fact done honesty, whether it is done negligently or not ;\n(30) \"Government\" or \"the Government\" includes the State Government as well as the Central Government ;\n(31) \"Government of Arunachal Pradesh\" means the Administrator ;\n(32) \"Government securities\" means securities of the Central Government or of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh or of any State Government ;\n(33) \"High Court\" means the Gauhati High Court (The High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura);\n(34) \"immovable property\" includes land, benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth ;\n(35) \"imprisonment\" means imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860);\n(36) \"judicial proceeding\" means any proceeding in the course of which evidence is, or may be, legally taken ;\n(37) \"local authority\" means a municipal corporation, a municipality, a municipal committee, a local or district board or any other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with the control or management of a municipal or local fund ;\n(38) \"local law\" means a law applicable only to a particular part of Arunachal Pradesh ;\n(39) \"Magistrate\" includes every person exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) or under any other law, for the time being in force, relating to criminal procedure;\n(40) \"master\" used with reference to a ship, means every person (except a pilot or harbourmaster) having, for the time being, control or charge of the ship ;\n(41) \"month\" means a month reckoned according to the British Calendar;\n(42) \"movable property\" means property of every description except immovable property ;\n(43) 'notification' means a notification in the official Gazette ;\n(44) \"oath\" includes an affirmation and a declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing ;\n(45) \"offence\" means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force ;\n(46) \"Official Gazette\" means the official Gazette of Arunachal Pradesh ;\n(47) \"Part\" , means a part of the enactment in which the word occurs ;\n(48) \"person\" includes any company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not ;\n(49) \"place\" includes also a house, building, tent vehicle and vessel;\n(50) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under an enactment in which the word occurs ;\n(51) \"public\" includes any class or section of the public ;\n(52) \"public nuisance\" means a public nuisance as defined in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860);\n(53) \"registered\" used with reference to a document, means registered in India under the law for the time being in force for the registration of documents;\n(54) \"Regulation\" means a Regulation made by the President under Article 240 of the Constitution and includes a Regulation made by the Central Government under the Government of India Act, 1870, or the Government of India Act, 1915, or the Government of India Act, 1935 ;\n(55) \"rule\" means a rule made in exercise of a power conferred by any enactment and includes a regulation made as a rule under any enactment;\n(56) \"schedule\" means a schedule to the enactment in which the word occurs ;\n(57) \"section\" means a section of the enactment in which the word occurs ;\n(58) \"ship\" includes every description of vessel used in investigation not exclusively propelled by oars ;\n(59) \"sign\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, used with reference to a person who is unable to write his name, includes marks\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions ;\n(60) \"son\" in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, includes an adopted son ;\n(61) \"special law\" means a law applicable to a particular subject only ;\n(62) \"State\" means a State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution, and includes a Union territory ;\n(63) \"sub-section\" means a sub-section of the section in which the word occurs ;\n(64) \"swear\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes affirming and declaring in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing ;\n(65) \"Union territory\" means any Union territory specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution and includes any other territory comprised within the territory of India but not specified in that Schedule ;\n(66) \"vessel\" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation ;\n(67) \"will\" includes codicil and every writing making a voluntary posthumous disposition of property ;\n(68) \"writing\" expression referring to \"writing\" shall be construed as including reference to printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form ; and\n(69) \"year\" means a year reckoned according to the British Calendar.\nChapter III\nGeneral Rules of Construction",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Territorial extent of enactment.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Coming into force of enactments.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Expiry of temporary enactments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Marginal notes not part of enactment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Government of be bound by enactments.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Effect of incorporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Offences by companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"company\" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals ; and\n(b) \"director, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Gender and number.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) words importing the masculine gender shall be taken to include females; and\n(b) words in the singular shall be taken to include the plural, and vice-versa .",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Commencement and termination of time.",
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            "content": "(a) to use the words \"from\" or the word \"after for the purpose of excluding the first in a series of days or any other period of time ;\n(b) to use the word \"to\" for the purpose of including the last in a series of days or any other period of time ;\n(c) to use the word \"on\" or the word \"with\" for the purpose of including the day on which the periods is expressed to begin or to end ; and\n(d) in relation to the interval between two events, to use the words \"clear days\" or \"at least\" or \"not less than\" a number of days, for the purpose of excluding the days on which the events happen and merely to specify the number of days for the purpose of excluding the day on which the first event happens and including the day on which the second event happens.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Computation of time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Expression of time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Duty to be taken pro rata.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Measurement of distances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Penalties provided to be maximum.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Deviation from forms.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Acts done on holidays.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Provisions as to offences punishable under two or more enactments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nRepeal and Expiry of Enactments",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Effect of repeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the repeal takes effect; or\n(b) affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder ; or\n(c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any enactment so repealed ; or\n(d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence commitred against any enactment so repealed ; or\n(e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid ;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Repeal of enactment making textual amendment in enactment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Construction of references to repealed enactments.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Revival of repealed enactment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Effect of expiration of enactment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the previous operation of any enactment so expired or anything duly done or suffered thereunder ; or\n(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under that enactment ; or\n(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against that enactment; or\n(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy, in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability,penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid ;\nChapter V",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Powers conferred to be exerciseable from time to time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Exercise of power performance of duty by temporary holder of office.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Power to appoint to include power to appoint ex-officio.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Power to appoint to include power to suspend or dismiss.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Substitution of functionaries.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Successors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Official chiefs and subordinates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nSubordinate Legislation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Making of rules or bye-laws and issuing of orders between passing and commencement of enactment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Power to make or issue etc. includes power to add to amend, vary or rescind notifications, orders, rules, or bye-laws.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Provisions applicable to making rules or bye-laws after previous publication.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the authority having power to make the rules or bye- laws shall, before making them publish a draft of the proposed rules or bye-laws for the information of persons likely to be affected thereby;\n(b) the publication shall be made in such manner as that authority deems to be sufficient, or, if the condition with respect to previous publication so requires, in such manner as the Government may prescribe;\n(c) there shall be published with the draft a notice specifying a date on or after which the draft will be taken into consideration ;\n(d) the authority having power to make the rules or bye- laws, and where the rules or bye-laws are to be made with the sanction, approval or concurrence of another authority, that authority also, shall consider any objection or suggestion which may be received by the authority having power to make the rules or bye-laws from any person with respect to the draft before the date so specified ; and\n(e) the publication in the official Gazette of a rule or bye-law purporting to have been made in exercise of a power to make rules or bye-laws after previous publication shall be conclusive proof that the rule or bye-law has been duly made.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Continuation of orders, etc. issued under enactments repealed and re-enacted.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Construction of notifications etc. issued under enactments.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Publication and commencement of rules.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Laying of rules before Legislative Assembly.",
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            "content": "Chapter VII\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Citation of enactments.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Recovery of fines.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Meaning of \"service by post\".",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 8th February, 2020 [aru078]",
        "Act Number": "Act No. 3 of 1982",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1982",
        "Short Title": "Arunachal Pradesh Interpretation and General Clauses Act, 1982",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Arunachal Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}