Legal glossary

“the act”

Defined in 2 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
  1. The Coal Mines Labour Welfare Fund (Repeal) Act, 1986 · s. 2

    (a) "the Act" means the Coal Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1947 (32 of 1947);
    Read section 2
  2. The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act (Extension to Chandigarh) Act, 1974 · s. 2

    "the Act" means the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 (East Punjab Act III of 1949) as it extended to, and was in force in, certain areas in the pre-reorganisation State of Punjab (being areas which were administered by municipal committees, cantonment boards, town committees or notified area committees or areas notified as urban areas for the purposes of that Act) immediately before the 1st day of November, 1966.
    Read section 2