section 5
General Rules of Construction
The Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904General190433 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Where any Bombay Act or Maharashtra Act is not expressed to come into operation on a particular day, then,
- (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 the 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;
- (ii) in the case of a Bombay Act or Maharashtra 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.
- (2) Unless the contrary is expressed, a Bombay Act or Maharashtra Act be construed as coming into operation immediately on the expiration of the day preceding its commencement.
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