The Punjab Law (Extension No.1) Act, 1957

(1) This Act may be callcd thc punjab Laws (Extension No. 1 ) Act, 1957. (2) ft shall come into force at once.

In this Act- (a) "Schedule" mean.$ a Schedule appended to this Act ; (b) "transferred territoriest' means the territories which immediately before the 1st- November, 1956, were cornpi+xd in !he Slate of Palizla and gas1 Punjab Siaics 'u'rrior~.

The General Clauses Act, 1598, shal apply for the interpretation of this Act as it applies-for the interpretation of a Punjab Act.

(1) All the enactments, as amended from time to time, specified in Schedule I and so much of any of the enactments, as amended from time to time, specified in Schedule II relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for a State, and rules, regulations, notifications, orders and by-laws made, and all directions or instructions issued, hereunder, which are in force immediately before the commencement of this Act in the said territories, are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the transferred territories. (2) The amendments specified in Schedule I shall be made in the aforesaid enactments.

In the enactments, or rules, regulations, notifications, orders and by-laws made, and directions or instructions issued, thereunder, as referred to in section 4, any reference- (1) to a law which is not in force in the transferred territories shall, in relation to such territories, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in such territories; and (2) to the State of Punjab, by whatever form of words, shall be construed as including a reference to the transferred territories.

If immediately before the commencement of this Act, there is in force in the transferred territories any law corresponding to any of the enactments or rules, regulations, notifications, orders and by-laws made, and directions or instructions issued, thereunder, extended to those territories by section 4, that law, including the enactments specified in Schedule III, shall on the commencement of this Act, save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act: stand repealed: (a) the previous operation of any law so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder ; or (b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or incurred under any law so repealed ; or (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any law so repealed ; or (d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid ; and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if this Act had not been passed: Provided further that anything done or any action taken under any law so repealed shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provision of the enactment extended by section 4 to the transferred territories, and shall continue to be in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by any thing done or any action taken under the enactment so extended.

For purposes of facilitating the application in the transferred territories of any enactment specified in Schedule I or Schedule II or of any rule, regulation, notification, order, by-law, direction or other instruction referred to in section 4, any court or other authority may construe the same with such alterations, not affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the court or other authority.

Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the power of the State Government or of any officer or authority, exercisable under the enactments specified in Schedules I and II, to add to, amend, vary or rescind the rules, regulations, notifications, orders and by-laws made, and directions or instructions issued, as extended by section 4 to the transferred territories.

If any difficulty arises in giving effect in the transferred territories to the provisions of any enactment specified in Schedule I or Schedule II, the State Government may, by order notified in the Official Gazette, make such provisions or give such directions as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for the removal of the difficulty.

Number of Act (Act No. XX of 1883) (Act No. V of 1912) (Act No. IV of 1924) (Act No X of 1940) (Act No. XII of 1941) (Act No. XV of 1947) (Act No. XXXVII of 1948) (Act No. XXXIX of 1948) (Act No. L of 1948) (Act No. I of 1949) (Act No. II of 1949) (Act No. XIII of 1950) Short title The Punjab District Boards Act, 1883. The Colonisation of Government Lands (Punjab) Act, 1912. The Punjab Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1924. The Punjab Trade Employees Act, 1940. The Punjab Weights and Measures Act, 1941. The East Punjab Movable Property (Requisitioning) Act, 1947. The Motor Vehicles (East Punjab Amendment) Act, 1948. The East Punjab Cement Control Act, 1948. The East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948. The East Punjab Control of Bricks Supplies Act, 1949. The East Punjab Conservation of Firewood supplies Act, 1949. The Punjab Contingency Fund Act, 1950. Amendments In section 4, for the words "fifty lakhs" substitute "one crore"

Year 1952 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1956 1956 1956 Number of the Act (Act No. XI of 1952) (Act No. XII of 1952) (Act No. XI of 1953) (Act No. XXI of 1954) (Act No. XXXI of 1955) (Act No. 7 of 1956) (Act No. 36 of 1956) (Act No. 38 of 1956) (Act No. 40 of 1956) Short title The Punjab Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1952. The Punjab Habitual Offenders (Control and Reform) Act, 1952. The Punjab Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1953. The Punjab State Tube-well Act, 1954. The Motor Vehicles (Punjab Amendment) Act, 1955. The Punjab Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act, 1956. The Punjab Instruments (Control of Noises) Act, 1956. The Punjab Special Powers (Press) Act, 1956. The Punjab Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1956. Year 1870 1871 Number of the Act (Act No. VII of 1870) (Act No. 1 of 1871) Short title The Court Fees Act, 1870. The Cattle Trespass Act, 1871.

Year 1873 1883 1884 1894 1894 1899 1900 Number of the Act (Act No. VIII of 1873) (Act No. XIX of 1883) (Act No. XII of 1884) (Act No. I of 1894) (Act No. IX of 1894) (Act No. II of 1899) (Act No. III of 1900) Short title The Northern Indian Canal and Drainage Act, 1873. The Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883. The Agriculturists' Loans Act, 1884. The Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The Prisons Act, 1894. The Indian Stamp Act, 1899. The Prisoners Act, 1900. Year 1979 Bk. 1981 Bk. 2000 Bk. 2002 Bk. 2003 Bk. 2003 Bk. 2007 Bk. 2008 Bk. 2008 Bk. 1960 Bk. 1984 Bk. 1991 Bk. 1992 Bk. 2008 Bk. 1910 1854 1960 Bk. 1953 Bk. 1931 1940 1953 1935 1954 1954 1955 Number of the Act (Patiala Act No. I of 1979 Bk.) (Patiala Act No. I of 1981 Bk.) (Patiala Act No. I of 2000 Bk.) (Notification No. Leg/137, dated 28-10-2002, 9-2-46) (Patiala Ordinance No. VII of 2003 Bk.) (Patiala Act No. I of 2003 Bk.) (Pepsu Act No. V of 2007 Bk.) (Pepsu Act No. XXII of 2008 Bk.) (Pepsu Act No. VI of 2008 Bk.) (Patiala Standing Order No. 258) (Patiala Act No. LI of 1984 Bk.) (Patiala Act No. VII of 1991 Bk.) (Patiala Government Rules, 1335) (Pepsu Act No. XVII of 2008 Bk.) (Patiala State order No. 256) (Pepsu Act No. XIV of 1954) (Patiala High Court notification No. 38, dated 7-8-1980 Bk.) (Patiala Ministry of Law and Justice notification No. 8, dated 7-8-1930 Bk.) (Farman-i-Shahi No. 19, dated 16th July, 1931) (Order of Ijlas-i-Khas No. 57, dated 22-1-1940) (Pepsu Act No. 24 of 1953) (Notification No. 11, dated 20-10-1935) (Pepsu Act No. 7 of 1954) (Pepsu Act No. 16 of 1954) (Pepsu Act No. 17 of 1955) Short title The Cattle Trespass Act, 1979 Bk. The Restriction of Habitual Offenders Act, 1981 Bk. The Patiala Motor Vehicle Taxation Act, 2000 Bk. Secretary Legislation and Legal Remembrancer's Office; Patiala notification No. Leg/137, dated 28-10-2002/9-2-46 in so far only as it relates to the Prisons Act, 1894 (IX of 1894), and the Prisoners Act, 1900 (III of 1900). The Patiala State Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Ordinance, 2003 Bk. The Patiala Trade Employees Act, 2003 Bk. The Patiala and East Punjab States Union Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 2007 Bk. Pepsu Contingency Fund Act, 2008 Bk. The Pepsu State Tube-wells Act, 2008 Bk. The Patiala State Standing Order No. 258, dated the 26th Magh, 1960 Bk. The Patiala Stamp (Amendment) Act, 1984 Bk. The Patiala Stamp (Amendment) Act, 1991 Bk. with corrigenda dated 2-10-44. His Highness' Government Patiala Rules for the Sale and Custody of Stamps (Sanctioned by Ijlas-i-Khas on 26th February, 1935 and published in the Patiala Government Gazette, dated 5th Baisakh, 1992 Bk.) The PEPSU Stamp (Amendment) Act, 2008 Bk. Accountant-General, Patiala's Standing Order No. 256, dated the 17th January 1910. PEPSU Stamp (Amendment) Act, 1954 [1974]. Ministry of Law and Justice, Patiala notification reducing the scale to Rs. 7-8-0 per cent on suits up to the value of Rs. 500. High Court, Patiala. Notification No. 38, dated 7-8-1980 Bk. published in the Gazette, dated 28th November, 1923 (Re: Court Fees). Ministry of Law and Justice notification No. 8, dated 8-4-1930 Bk. published in the Gazette, dated 27th January, 1927 (Re: Court Fees). Farman-i-Shahi No. 19, dated 16th July, 1931. Order of Ijlas-i-Khas No. 57, dated 22-1-40 re: levy of Stamp on applications made to different departments of the State. Pepsu Court Fees (Amendment) Act, 1955 [1953]. Ministry of Law and Justice, His Highness' Government, Patiala, Notification No. 11, dated 20th October, 1935. The Pepsu Cinemas (Regulations) Act, 1954. Pepsu Requisitioning and Acquisition Immovable Property Act, 1954. The Pepsu Land Acquisition Act, 1954.