In force · As amended up to 2026-08
3. Amendment of certain enactments . — The enactments specified in the Second Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof.
4 . Savings . — The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any other enactment in which the repealed enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to;
and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing;
nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed or recognised or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed;
nor shall the repeal by this Act of any enactment revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure or other thing not now existing or in force.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
|||THE FIRST SCHEDULE|
|---|---|---|
|||(See section 2)|
|||REPEALS|
|Year|Act No.|Short Title|
|1|2|3|
|1886|XI|The Indian Tramways Act, 1886.|
|1976|31|The Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Fund Act, 1976.|
|1978|41|The Britannia Engineering Company Limited (Mokameh Unit) and|
|||the Arthur Butler and Company (Muzaffarpore) Limited|
|||(Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1978.|
|1982|36|The Chaparmukh-Silghat Railway Line and the Katakhal-Lalabazar|
|||Railway Line (Nationalisation) Act, 1982.|
|1984|55|The Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company Limited|
|||(Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1984.|
|1988|44|The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (Determination of|
|||Conditions of Service of Employees) Act, 1988.|
|2016|3|The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015.|
|2017|1|The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2017.|
|2017|3|The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2017.|
|2017|6|The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017.|
|2017|11|The Employee's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2017.|
|2017|30|The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2017.|
|2018|7|The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2018.|
|2018|10|The High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions|
|||of Service) Amendment Act, 2018.|
|2018|12|The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2018.|
|2018|18|The Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018.|
|2018|19|The State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Act, 2018.|
|2018|20|The Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2018.|
|2018|28|The Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial|
|||Appellate Division of High Courts (Amendment) Act, 2018.|
|2019|15|The Central Universities (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|2019|19|The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|1|2|3|
|---|---|---|
|2019|27|The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment)|
|||Act, 2019.|
|2019|32|The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|2019|38|The National Institute of Design (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|2019|41|The Chit Funds (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|2019|43|The Special Protection Group (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|2019|48|The Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019.|
|2020|1|The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2020|4|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2020|13|The Aircraft (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2020|17|The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Act,|
|||2020.|
|2020|18|The Salaries and Allowances of Ministers (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2020|24|The Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2020|25|The Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2020|39|The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020.|
|2021|3|The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|6|The Insurance (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|8|The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment)Act, 2021.|
|2021|15|The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|21|The Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|22|The Coconut Development Board (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|26|The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|27|The Central Universities (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|28|The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment)|
|||Act, 2021.|
|2021|30|The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|32|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|37|The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Act,|
|||2021.|
|2021|38|The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|1|2|3|
|---|---|---|
|2021|39|The National Commission for Homoeopathy (Amendment) Act,|
|||2021.|
|2021|43|The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2021|44|The High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions|
|||of Service) Amendment Act, 2021.|
|2021|49|The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021.|
|2022|8|The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2022.|
|2022|9|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment)Act, 2022.|
|2022|10|The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022.|
|2022|14|The Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems|
|||(Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Act, 2022.|
|2022|19|The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022.|
|2022|20|The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders|
|||(Second Amendment) Act, 2022.|
|2022|23|The New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Act,|
|||2022.|
|2023|1|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment)|
|||Act, 2022.|
|2023|2|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Fourth Amendment)|
|||Act, 2022.|
|2023|9|The Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023.|
|2023|11|The Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Act, 2023.|
|2023|12|The Cinematograph (Amendment) Act, 2023.|
|2023|13|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Act, 2023.|
|2023|14|The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment)|
|||Act, 2023.|
|2023|16|The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment|
|||Act, 2023.|
|2023|17|The Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation)|
|||Amendment Act, 2023.|
|2023|19|The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi|
|||(Amendment) Act, 2023.|
|2023|27|The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Act, 2023.|
|2023|36|The Central Universities (Amendment) Act, 2023.|
THE SECOND SCHEDULE
(See section 3)
||||(See section 3)|(See section 3)||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||AMENDMENTS|||||
|Year|Act No.|Short|Title|Amendments||||
|1|2|3|||4|||
|1897|10|The General Clauses Act,||In section 27, for|the words|"registered||
|||1897.||post",<br>the<br>words|"speed|post|<br>with|
|||||registration" shall be|substituted.|||
|1908|5|The Code of Civil||(i) In section 148A, in sub-section|||(2), for|
|||Procedure, 1908.||the<br>words|"registered||post,|
|||||acknowledgement due", the words|||"speed|
|||||post with registration|and proof|of delivery"||
|||||shall be substituted;||||
(ii) In the First Schedule,—
(a) in Order V, in rule 9,—
(I) in sub-rule (3), for the words "registered post acknowledgement due, addressed to the defendant or his agent empowered to accept the service or by speed post", the words "speed post with registration and proof of delivery addressed to the defendant or his agent empowered to accept the service" shall be substituted;
(II) in sub-rule (4), the brackets and words "(except by registered post acknowledgment due)" shall be omitted;
(III) in sub-rule (5), in the proviso, for the words "registered post acknowledgement due, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule shall be made notwithstanding the fact that the acknowledgement", the words "speed post with registration and proof of delivery, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule shall be made notwithstanding the fact that the proof of delivery" shall be substituted;
(b) in Order XXI, in rule 1, in sub-rule (2), for the words "registered post, acknowledgement due", the words "speed post with registration and proof of delivery" shall be substituted; and (c) in Order XXXIX, in rule 3, in the proviso, in clause (a), for the words "registered post", the words "speed post with registration" shall be substituted.
|1|2|||3|4|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1925|39|The|Indian|Succession|(i) In section 3, in sub-section (1), the|
|2005|53|Act,<br>The|1925<br>Disaster Management||figure ", 213" shall be omitted;<br>(ii) section 213 shall be omitted;<br>(iii) in section 370,<br>(a) in sub-section (1), for the words<br>and figures "or section 213 to be<br>established by letters of administration or<br>probate", the words "to be established by<br>letters<br>of<br>administration"<br>shall<br>be<br>substituted;<br>(b) in sub-section (2), clause (b) shall<br>be omitted.<br>In section 30, in sub-section (2), in clause|
|||Act,|2025||(vi), for the word "prevention", the word|
||||||"preparation" shall be substituted.|
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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
This Bill is one of those periodical measures by which enactments, which have ceased to be in force or have become obsolete or the retention whereof as separate Acts is unnecessary are repealed and by which certain amendments and formal defects detected in enactments are amended and corrected.
Source: India Code