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The Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904
The Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904
Sections
Preamble / Statement of Objects
Section 11. Short title.
Section 12. Repeal.
Section 23. Definitions.
Section 34. Application of certain of the foregoing definitions to previous Bombay Act.
Section 45. Coming in to operation of Bombay Act [or Gujarat Acts].
Section 56. Printing of date on which Act is published after having received the assent of the Governor, Governor General, or his Majesty, as the case may require.
Section 67. Effect of repeal.
Section 78. Revival of repealed enactments.
Section 89. Construction of references to repeal enactments.
Section 910. Commencement and termination of time.
Section 1011. Computation of time.
Section 1112. Measurement of distances.
Section 1213. Gender and number.
Section 1314. Powers conferred on any Government to be exercisable from time to time.
Section 1415. Powers to appoint to include power to appoint ex-officio.
Section 1516. Power to appoint includes power to suspend or dismiss.
Section 1617. Substitution of functionaries.
Section 1718. Successors.
Section 1819. Official chiefs and subordinates.
Section 1920. Construction of orders, etc., issued under Bombay Acts [or Gujarat Act] .
Section 2021. Power to make to include power to add to, amend, vary or rescind orders, etc.
Section 2122. Making of rules or by-laws and issuing or orders between publication and commencement of Bombay Act [or Gujarat Act] .
Section 2223. Publication of orders and notifications in the Official Gazette to be deemed to be due publication.
Section 2324. Provisions applicable to making of rules or by-laws after previous publications.
Section 2425. Continuation of orders, etc. issued under enactments repealed and re-enacted.
Section 2526. Recovery of fines.
Section 2627. Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments.
Section 2728. Meaning of service by post.
Section 2829. Citation of enactments.
Section 2930. Saving for previous Acts rules and by-laws.
Section 30
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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 (XLV of 1860);\n(2) \"act\" , used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts; and words which refer to acts done shall extend also to illegal omissions.\n(3) \"affidavit\" shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing;\n(4) \"barrister\" shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland;\n(5) \"Bombay Act\" shall mean an Act made by the [Governor of Bombay] in Council under the [Indian Councils Act, 1861] or the Indian Councils Acts, 1861 and 1892 [or the Indian Councils Acts 1861 to 1909, or the Government of India Act, 1915, or made by the local legislature, or the Governor of the Presidency of Bombay under the Government of India Act, or by the Provincial Legislature, or the Governor of 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under the Constitution;]\n(22) \"High Court\" used with reference to civil proceedings shall mean the highest Civil Court of appeal in the part of the Bombay Presidency [and after the 1st day of May 1960 in the part of the State of the Gujarat] in which the Act containing the expression operates;\n[********]\n(24) \"immovable property\" shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth ;\n(25) \"imprisonment\" shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the [Indian Penal Code] (XLV of 1860);\n[(25A) Kutch area of the \"State of Bombay\" shall mean the territories transferred to the new [State of Bombay] under clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 8 of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956 (XXXVII of 1956), [and after the 1st day of May 1960 the said territories which form part of the State of Gujarat shall be known as Kutch area of the State of Gujarat] ;]\n(26) \"local authority\" shall mean a municipal corporation, municipality, local board, body of port trustees or commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with the control or management of municipal or local fund ;\n[********]\n(28) \"Magistrate\" shall include every person exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure (V of 1898), for the time being in force ;\n(29) \"master\" used with reference to a ship, shall mean any person (except a pilot or harbour-master) having for the time being control or charge of the ship;\n(30) \"month\" shall mean a month reckoned according to the British calendar;\n(31) \"movable property\" shall mean property of every description, except immovable property;\n(32) \"Oath\" shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing;\n(33) \"offence\" shall mean any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force;\n(34) \"part\" shall mean a part of the Act in which the word occurs ;\n(35) \"person\" shall include any company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not ;\n[(35A) \"pre-Re-organisation\" [State of Bombay] shall mean -\n(a) as respects any period before the commencement of the Constitution, the area comprised in the Province of Bombay;\n(b) as respects any period after the commencement of the Constitution, the territories of the State of Bombay as specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution before the commencement of the States Re-organisation Act, 1956 (XXXVII of 1956);]\n(36) \"public nuisance\" shall mean a public nuisance as defined in the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860);\n[(37) \"registered\" used with reference to a document, shall mean registered in a Part A State or a Part C State under the law for the time being in force for the registration of documents.]\n[** * * * * * *]\n(39) \"rule\" shall mean a rule made in exercise of a power conferred by any enactment, and shall include a regulation made as a rule under any enactment ;\n[(39A) \"Saurashtra area of the [State of Bombay] \" shall mean the territories transferred to the new State of Bombay under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 8 of the State Re-organisation Act, 1956 (XXXVII of 1956), [and after the 1st day of May 1960 the said territories which form part of the State of Gujarat shall be known as the Saurashtra area of the State of Gujarat] ;]\n(40) \"schedule\" shall mean a schedule to the Act in which the word occurs;\n(41) \" [Scheduled District] \" shall mean a \"Scheduled District\" as defined in the [Scheduled District Acts 1874] (XII of 1874);\n(42) \"section\" shall mean a section of the Act in which the word occurs;\n(43) \"ship\" shall include every description of vessel used in navigation not exclusively propelled by oars;\n(44) \"sign\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall with reference to a person who is unable to write his name, include \"mark\" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions;\n(45) \"son\" in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adopted son;\n(46) \"sub-section\" shall mean a sub-section of the Section in which the word occurs;\n[(46A) [ \"State of Bombay\" ] shall mean -\n(a) as respects any period on and after the 1st day of November 1956 the [Bombay area of the State of Gujarat] ;\n(b) as respects any period on and after that day the territories comprised in the new State of Bombay under section 8 of the Stages Re-organisation Act, 1956] (XXXVII of 1956);\n[(46AA) \"State of Gujarat\" shall mean the territories which on the 1st day of May 1960 are comprised in the State of Gujarat under section 3 of the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 (II of 1960);]\n(46B) \"transferred territories\" shall mean the territories transferred from the pre-Re-organisation [State of Bombay] to the new States of Mysore and Rajasthan under 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"content": "(i) in the case of a Bombay Act made before the commencement of the Constitution, it shall come into operation, if it is an Act of the Legislature, on the day on which the assent thereto of the Governor, the Governor General or his Majesty, as the case may require, is first published in Official Gazette and, if it is an Act of the Governor, on the day on which it is first published as an Act in the Official Gazette -,\n(ii) in the case of a Bombay Act [or Gujarat Act] made after the commencement of the Constitution, it shall come into operation on the day on which the assent thereto of the Governor or the President, as the case may require, is first published in the Official Gazette .]",
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"title": "7. Effect of repeal.",
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"content": "(a) receive 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 of liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any enactment so repealed; or\n(d) affect any penalty, forfeited or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment so repeated; 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, 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 the repealing Act had not been passed.\n[7A. Repeal of enactment making textual amendment in any Act.",
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"title": "13. Gender and number.",
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"content": "(a) words importing the masculine gender shall be taken to include females; and\n(b) words in the singular shall include the plural, and vice-versa.\nPowers and Functionaries",
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"title": "14. Powers conferred on any Government to be exercisable from time to time.",
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"number": "20",
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"number": "21",
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"number": "22",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Publication of orders and notifications in the Official Gazette to be deemed to be due publication.",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. Provisions applicable to making of rules or by-laws after previous publications.",
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"content": "(a) the authority having power to make the rules or by-laws shall, before making them, publish a draft of the proposed rules or by-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 lo be sufficient or, if the condition with respect to previous publication so requires, in such manner as the [Central Government, or as the case may be, the [State] Government] prescribes;\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 by-laws, and, where the rules or by-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 by-laws from any person with respect to the draft before the date so specified;\n(e) the publication in the [ Official Gazette ] of a rule or by-laws purporting to have been made in exercise of a power to make rules or by-laws after previous publication shall be conclusive proof that the rule or by-law has been duly made.",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Continuation of orders, etc. issued under enactments repealed and re-enacted.",
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"content": "Miscellaneous",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Recovery of fines.",
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"number": "27",
"title": "27. Provision as to offences punishable under two or more enactments.",
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"number": "28",
"title": "28. Meaning of service by post.",
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"number": "29",
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Application of Act to Ordinances and Regulations.\n(a) in relation to any Ordinance promulgated by the [Governor of Bombay] under section 88 of the Government of India Act, 1935, as they apply in relation to Bombay Acts made under the said Act by the Governor and in relation to any Regulation made by the Governor under section 92 of the said Act as they apply in relation to Bombay Acts made by the Provisional Legislature; and\n(b) in relation to any Ordinance promulgated by the Governor under article 213 of the Constitution or any Regulation made by the Governor under paragraph 5 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, as they apply in relation to Bombay Acts made by the State Legislature;\nThe Schedule\nEnactments Repealed\nEnactments Repealed\n(See Section 2)\n(See Section 2)\nYear\nYear\nNo.\nNo.\nTitle or Subject\nTitle or Subject\nExtent of repeal\nExtent of repeal\n1886\nIII\nThe Bombay General Clauses Act, 1886\nThe whole [excePt so much of [Schedule B] as\n\t\t\t\trelates to unrepealed enactments] .\n1891\nI\nAn Act to amend the Bombay General Clauses Act,\n\t\t\t\t1886.\nSo much as is unrepealed.\n1896\nI\n--- do --- --- do ---\nThe whole.\nAppendix\nAppendix\n[schedule B to The Bombay General Clauses Act, 1886]\n(Bombay Act III of 1886)\n(Bombay Act III of 1886)\nVerbal Amendments made in The Regulations and Acts of The Governor of Bombay in Council\nVerbal Amendments made in The Regulations and Acts of The Governor of Bombay in Council\nEnactment\nEnactment\nNo. & Year\nNo. & Year\nSection\nSection\nClause\nClause\nWords repealed\nWords repealed\nWords, if any, substituted for the words\n\t\t\t\trepealed\nWords, if any, substituted for the words\n\t\t\t\trepealed\nRegulations-\n[XII of 1827]\n19\n1\n\"Magistrate\"\n\"District Magistrate\".\n19\n6\n\"The Magistrate\" (the first time the words occur).\n\t\t\t\t..\n\"the district Magistrate\".\n19\n6\n\"the Magistrate\" (the second time the words occur).\n\t\t\t\t..\n\"any Magistrate\".\n19\n6\n\"ordinary\"..\n\"simple\"\n19\n6\n\"without labour\" ..\n..\n19\n7\n\"Magistrate\" (the first time word occurs). ..\n\"District Magistrate\".\n19\n7\n\"Magistrate\" (the second time the word occurs).\n\"Magistrate before whome proceedings against such\n\t\t\t\tindividual such individual are being held.\"\n19\n8\n\"the Magistrate shall also\" ..\n\"any magistrate may\"\n[20]\n...\n3 \"Magistrate\" ...\n3 \"District Magistrate\"\n27\n2\n\"Magistrate\" (each time the word occurs)\n3 \"District Magistrate\"\n27\n2\n\"Ordinary\"\n\"simple\"\n27\n2\n\"without hard labour\"...\n37\n1\n\"Magistrate\"\nDistrict or sub-Divisional Magistrate\".\n[XXII of 1827]\n40\n..\n\"Magistrate\"\n\"District or sub-Divisional Magistrate\".\n41\n1\n\"Local\"\n\"District\"\n42\n1\n\"Local\"\n\"District\"\n[XXII of 1827]\n42\n2,3,4\n\"Magistrate\" (each time the word occurs)\n\"District Magistrate\".\n[XXV of 1827]\n4\n2\n\"Magistrate\" (both times the word occurs)\n\"district Magistrate\".\n7\n...\n\"Magistrate\" ...\n\"District Magistrate\"\nActs.-\n[I of 1862]\n1\n..\n\"Annexed to this Act\"\n..\nIV of 1862\n1\n..\n\"the Magistrate\" (the second time the words occur).\n\t\t\t\t..\n\"a Magistrate of the first class\"\n1\n..\n\"Calendar\" ..\n..\n6\n..\n\"Magistrate\" ..\n\"District Magistrate\"\n6\n\"this Act\"\n\"section 4\"\n6\n\"of Police\"\n..\n7\n\"of either kind\"\n..\n7\n..\n\"calendar\"\n..\n10\n..\n\"Magistrate\"\n\"District Magistrate\"\n10\n..\n`of Police\" ...\n..\nV of 1862\n3\n..\n\"Calendar\" ..\n..\nVI of 1862\n8 and 9\n..\"Calendar\"(each time the word occurs) ..\n..\n21\n..\"The following words and expressions\" ..\n..\n21\n..\"shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them\"\n..\n21\n..\"(that is say)\"\n..\nI of 1863\n6\n..\"Justice of the Peace of person exercising the powers\n\t\t\t\tof a Magistrate within the province of Sind\". ..\n\"of the first class\".\n12\n..\n-- Do --\n-- Do --\n11\n..\n\"of this Act\"\n..\nII of 1863\n2\n..\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur')\n..\n2,4,5,7,8,10,11 and 13\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n4,5 and 11\n..\"calendar\" (each time the word occurs).\n..\n5 and 11\n..\n\"collectorate or\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n11\n4\n\"Collectorate\"\n\"district\"\n11\n6\n\"collectorate\" (each time the word occurs).\n\"district\"\nIII of 1863\n1 and 2\n..\"to this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\nV of 1863\n20\n..\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n[****\n*****\n***\n******\n****]\nVII of 1863\n...\n..\n\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur).\n..\n7,8,9,11, 12, 13 and 26.\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n9\n1 and 2\n\"collectorate or\" (each time the words occur)\n..\n3,4, 6 and 7.\n\"collectorate\" (each time the word occurs).\n\"district\"\n9\n8\n\"calendar\"\n..\n9\n9\n\"Revenue\"\n..\n9\n9\n\"of the division\"\n..\n12\n..\n\"or Sub-Collector\"\n..\n20\n2\n\"annexed\"\n..\nVII of 1866\n6\n\"of this Act\"\n..\nXII of 1866\n15\n\"annexed to this Act\"\n..\n[**\n**\n**\n****\n***]\nVI of 1867\n5,9 and 10\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur)\n..\n[VII of 1867]\n34\n..\"Of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n\"\n..\n\"full-power Magistrate\"\n\"Magistrate of the first class\"\nVIII of\t1807\n[1\n..\n\"Commissioner of Police Act, 1861.\"\n\"Acts 1867 and 1890\".]\n3, 4, 5, 15 and 18\n..\"of Police\" (wherever in the said sections those\n\t\t\t\twords follow the word \"Commissioner\").\n..\n5\n..\n\"Police\" (in each place in which the word precedes\n\t\t\t\tthe word \"Commissioner\").\n18\n\"of this Act\"\n..\nII of 1868\n17\n..\n\"Revenue or Police\"\n..\n[***\n***\n***\n***\n***]\n1 of 1874\nIn the preamble\n..\n\"to this Act\"\n..\n4\n..\nThe last three words\n..\n13\n..\n\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur).\n14\n..\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n29\n..\n\"calendar\"\n..\nII of 1874\n15\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n[II of 1874]\n3,4,6,7, 10,11, 12, 13, 21,31, 37, 39, 55,67, 73, 75, 76 and\n\t\t\t\t83.\n\"of this Act\" (each time the word occur).\n..\n6\n1\n\"Revenue\" (each time the word occurs)\n..\n20\n\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur).\n..\n40\n1\nThe last three words.\n..\n73\n2\n\"thereof\"\n..\n74\n\"revenue\"\n..\n74\n\"appointed under Regulation V of 1830, or other law in\n\t\t\t\tforce for the lime being\"\n..\n77\n\"empowered under the provisions of Bombay Act, I of\n\t\t\t\t1868\".\n..\n77\n\"so empowered\"\n..\n84\n\"Revenue\"\n..\nIII of 1875\n7\n..\n\"of either description\n..\n7\n\"calendar\"\n..\nII of 1876\n14, 16, 18 and 33.\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n16\n..\n\"hereto annexed\"\n..\n31\n..\"annexed to this Act\"\n..\n[***\n***\n***\n***\n***]\nI of 1877\n3, 9, 16, 17 and 25\n..\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17 and 18\n..\n\"hereto annexcd\"(each time the words occur)\n..\n12\n(b)\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n19\n..\n\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur).\n..\n23\n(b)\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n20 and 24.\n..\n\"of either description within the meaning of the Indian\n\t\t\t\tPenal Code\" (in each place in which these words occur).\n..\n28\n..\"The provisions of sections 64 to 70, both inclusive,\n\t\t\t\tof the Indian Penal Code shall apply to\".\n[V of 1978]\n3\n3\n\"means in Sind, the [Provincial Government] and\n\t\t\t\telsewhere a Commissioner of land revenue, or if Government\n\t\t\t\tappoints any other officer to be a Commissioner for the purposes\n\t\t\t\tof this Act, such other officer.\n\"includes an officer appointed by the Government to be a\n\t\t\t\tCommissioner for the purposes of this Act\".\n3\n4\n\"means a Collector of land-revenue or\".\n\"includes\"\n45\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur)\n...\nIV of 1879\n3\n..\n\"The last three words\"\n..\n9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17 and 18\n..\n\"hereto annexed\" (each time the words occur)\n..\n9, 16, 17 and 25.\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\nIV of 1879 -\n12\n(b)\n\"of this Act\"\n..\nContd.\n19\n..\n\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur)\n..\n20 and 24.\n..\n\"of either description within the meaning of the Indian\n\t\t\t\tPenal Code\" (in each place in which the words occur).\n..\n23\n(b)\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n[V of 1879]\n3\n2\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n10, 13, 18, 38, 86, 87, 161 and 216\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n23\n\"to this Act\"\n..\nVI of 1879\n21 and 34\n..\n\"of this Act\"\n..\nVII of 1879\n3\n5\n\"means the head revenue officer of a district and\"\n..\n57\n..\n\"of this Act\"\n..\n61 and 62.\n..\n\"of either description within the meaning of the said\n\t\t\t\tCode\" (in each place in which these words occur).\n..\n67\n..\n\"of the division\"\n..\nII of 1880\n3\n7\n\"hereto annexed\"\n..\n33\n(b)\n\"hereto annexed\"\n..\nII of 1883\n3, 5 and 8\n..\n\"of this Act\" (each time the words occur).\n..\n3\n..\n\"annexed to this Act\"\n..\nIII of 1883\nIn the preamble\n..\n\"to this Act\"\n..\n4\n..\n\"to this Act\"\n..\n17\n..\n\"of this Act\" (the first time the words occur).\n..\n[**\n**\n**\n**\n**]",
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"Act ID": "guj069",
"Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 1 of 1904",
"Enactment Date": "",
"Act Year": "1904",
"Short Title": "The Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Gujarat"
},
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}