The General Clauses Act 1868, 1 of 1868, (Rep., Act 10 of 1897)

Section 6. The repeal of any Statute, Act or Regulation, shall not affect anything done or any offence committe

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

6. The repeal of any Statute, Act or Regulation, shall not affect anything done or any offence committed, or any fine or penalty incurred, or any proceedings commenced before the repealing Act shall have come into operation. 6. "Moveable property." "Moveable property." (6.) "Moveable property" shall mean property of every description, except immoveable property; "Her Majesty." (7.) "Her Majesty" shall include Her heirs and successors to the Crown; (8.) "British India" shall mean the territories for the time being vested in Her Majesty by the Statute 21 & 22 Vic., cap. 106 (An Act for the better government of India), other than the Settlement of Prince of Wales' Island, Singapore and Malacca; (9.) "Government of India" shall denote the Governor General of India in Council, or, during the absence of the Governor General of India from his Council, the President in Council, or the Governor General of India alone, as regards the powers which may be lawfully exercised by them or him respectively; (10.) "Local Government" shall mean the person authorized by law to administer executive government in the part of British India in which the Act containing such expression shall operate, and shall include a Chief Commissioner; "High Court." (11.) "High Court" shall mean the highest Civil Court of appeal in such part; (12.) "District Judge" shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction; but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction; (13.) "Magistrate" shall include all persons exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure; "Barrister." (14.) "Barrister" shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland; "Section." shall include a codicil and every writing making a voluntary posthumous distribution of property; (17.) "Oath," "swear" and "affidavit" shall include affirmation, declaration, affirming and declaring in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing; "Imprisonment." (18.) "Imprisonment" shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code; (19.) And in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, "son" shall include an adopted son, and "father" an adoptive father.

Source: India Code