THE UNION TERRITORIES (LAWS) ACT 1950

{
    "id": 1737,
    "slug": "union-territories-laws-act-1950",
    "title": "THE UNION TERRITORIES (LAWS) ACT 1950",
    "short_title": "The Union Territories (Laws) Act, 1950",
    "act_number": "30",
    "act_year": 1950,
    "act_type": "CENTRAL",
    "location": "Delhi",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1950-06-15",
    "description": "The Union Territories (Laws) Act, 1950",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "An Act to provide for the extension of laws to certain [Union territories.]\n\nBE it enacted by Parliament as follows:-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title and commencement",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1. Short title and commencement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the '[Union Territories] (Laws)\n Act, 1950.",
            "footnote": "Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) It shall come into force on the 16th day of April, 1950.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Power to extend enactments to certain Union territories",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2. Power to extend enactments to certain Union territories. The Central Government may, by\n notification in the Official Gazette, extend to [the Union territory of Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur\n or Tripura or to any part of such territory], with such restrictions and modifications as it thinks fit, any\n enactment which is in force in a ³[State] at the date of the notification, ** * *.",
            "footnote": "Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956; Act 48 of 1952",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Extension of laws to Tripura, Vindhya Pradesh and Manipur",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3. Extension of laws to Tripura, Vindhya Pradesh and Manipur.-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) The Acts and Ordinances\n specified in the Schedule to the Merged States (Laws) Act, 1949 (59 of 1949), are hereby extended to,\n and shall be in force in, the States of Tripura and Vindhya Pradesh, as they are generally in force in the\n territories to which they extend immediately before the commencement of this Act.",
            "footnote": "59 of 1949",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) [Subject to the provisions contained in sub-section (2A), the Acts and ordinances referred to in\n sub-section (1)], are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the State of Manipur as they are\n generally in force in the territories to which they extend immediately before the commencement of\n this Act:",
            "footnote": "Act 68 of 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 3(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) in its application to the State of Manipur shall have\n effect as if-\n\n(a) in section 361, for the word \"eighteen\" the word \"fifteen\" had been substituted, and\n (b) in section 375, for the word \"sixteen\" in clause Fifthly the word \"fourteen\" had been\n substituted, and for the word \"fifteen\" in the Exception the word \"thirteen\" had been substituted.",
            "footnote": "45 of 1860",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(2A)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[(2A) The Acts specified in Part A of the Schedule to this Act shall not extend to the State of\n Manipur, and the Acts specified in Part B thereof shall extend to, and be in force in that State only as\n from the date of commencement of the Union Territories (Laws) Amendment Act, 1956 (68 of 1956), and\n shall with effect from that date, be amended to the manner and to the extent specified in the said Part.]",
            "footnote": "68 of 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) For the purpose of facilities the application in the said States of any such Act or Ordinance as\n aforeaid any Court or other authority may construe the Act or Ordinance with such alterations not\n affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the Court or other\n authority.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Explanation to Section 3",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[Explanation. For the purposes of this section and section 4, any reference to the State of Manipur\n or Tripura in relation to any period after the 31st October, 1956, shall be construed as a reference to the\n Union territory of Manipur or Tripura as the case may be].",
            "footnote": "Act 68 of 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Repeals and Savings",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "4. Repeals and Savings. Section 7 of the Delhi Laws Act, 1912 (13 of 1912), the Ajmer Merwara\n (Extension of Laws) Act, 1947 (52 of 1947), and any law which immediately [before the coming into\n force of any Act or Ordinance extended by this Act to any of the States of Manipur, Tripura and Vindhya\n Pradesh is in force in that State and corresponds to the Act or Ordinance as so extended], are hereby\n repealed:",
            "footnote": "13 of 1912; 52 of 1947; Act 68 of 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 4",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that the repeal shall not affect-\n\n(a) the previous operations of any such law, or\n(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against\nany such law;\n or\n(c) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such penalty, forfeiture or\n punishment,\n\nand any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any\n such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Second Proviso to Section 4",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided further that, subject to the preceding proviso, anything done or any action taken, including\n any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, rule, regulation,\n form, bye-law or scheme framed, certificate, patent, permit or licence granted or registration effected,\n under such law shall be deemed to have been done or taken under section 2 or, as the case may be, under\n the corresponding provision of the Act or Ordinance [as extended] to the State by section 3, and shall\n continue in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under the\n said section 2 or, as the case may be, under the said Act or Ordinance.",
            "footnote": "Act 68 of 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "Schedule - Part A",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "THE SCHEDULE\n\n[See section 3 (2A)]\n\nPart A\n\nActs not extended to Manipur by this Act\n\n\"Year",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 150
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "Schedule - Part B",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part B\r\n\r\nActs extended to Manipur by this Act as from the commencement of the Union Territories' (Laws)\r\n\r\nAmendment Act, 1956.\r\n\r\nYear Number Short Title Amendment (if any)\r\n1 2 3 4\r\n1873 X The Indian Oaths Act, 1873\r\n1882 IV The Transfer of Property Act, 1882. In section 1, for the second paragraph, the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely: \"It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.\"\r\n1887 VII The Suits Valuation Act, 1887.\r\n1898 V The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.\r\n1908 V The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.\r\n1925 XXXIX The Indian Succession Act, 1925. (1) In section 1, in sub-section (2), the words \"and the Union territory of Manipur\" shall be omitted, and (2) in section 93A, in sub-section (1), the words \"or in the Union territory of Manipur\" shall be omitted.\r\nIn section 1, in sub-section (3) the word \"and\" at the end of clauses (c) and clause (d) shall be omitted.",
            "footnote": "68 of 1956",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 160
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "195030",
        "Act Number": "30",
        "Enactment Date": "1950-04-15",
        "Act Year": "1950",
        "Short Title": "The Union Territories (Laws) Act, 1950",
        "Department": "Parliament of India",
        "Type": "CENTRAL",
        "Location": "India"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:51:59"
}