The Tamil Nadu (Added Territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1962

(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu (Added Territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1962. (2) Section 10 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April 1961; and the rest of this Act shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "added territories" means the territories specified in the Second Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 (Central Act 56 of 1959); (b) "existing law" means any law, Ordinance, regulation, order, by-law or rule passed or made before the date of the commencement of this Act by Parliament, or any Legislature, authority or person having power to make such a law, Ordinance, regulation, order, by-law or rule.

So much of the enactments specified in the First Schedule as is in force on the date of the commencement of this Act in the State of Tamil Nadu except the enactments, if any, specified therein and which relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the added territories.

The enactments specified in the Second Schedule in so far as they apply to, and are in force in, the added territories are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

(1) Any reference in any enactment specified in the First Schedule to a law which is not in force in the added territories shall, in relation to those territories, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in those territories. (2) Any reference in any existing law which continues to be in force in the added territories after the date of the commencement of this Act to any law repealed by section 7 shall, in relation to those territories, be construed as a reference to the enactment specified in the First Schedule corresponding to the law so repealed.

Any reference, by whatever form of words, in any existing law to any authority competent at the date of the passing of that law to exercise any powers or discharge any functions in the added territories shall, where a corresponding new authority has been constituted by or under any enactment now extended to the added territories, have effect as if it were a reference to that new authority.

The Andhra Irrigation Works (Levy of Compulsory Water-cess) Act, 1955 (Andhra Act XXIV of 1955), the Andhra Irrigation (Levy of Betterment Contribution) Act, 1955 (Andhra Act XXV of 1955) and the Andhra Silkworm Seed (Control) Act, 1956 (Andhra Act XV of 1956), and any Act, Ordinance, regulation, order, by-law, rule or other law corresponding to an enactment specified in the First Schedule in force in the added territories immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act by virtue of section 45 of the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 (Central Act 56 of 1959), or by virtue of any other legislative power shall, on the date of the commencement of this Act, stand repealed to the extent to which the corresponding law relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State.

(1) The repeal by section 7 of any corresponding existing law shall not affect- (a) the previous operation of any such law or anything done or duly suffered thereunder, or (b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any such law, or (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any such law.

(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act or of any enactment extended to the added territories by or under this Act, the State Government, as occasion may require, may, by order, do anything which appears to them necessary for the purpose of removing the difficulty.

Year: 1873, Number: III, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Civil Courts Act, 1873. Year: 1922, Number: III, Short title: The Madras City Tenants' Protection Act, 1921. Year: 1926, Number: V, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Borstal Schools Act, 1925. Year: 1934, Number: X, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Co-operative Land Mortgage Banks Act, 1934. Year: 1935, Number: VI, Short title: The Madras Maternity Benefit Act, 1934. Year: 1954, Number: II, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Contingency Fund Act, 1954. Year: 1954, Number: XXIX, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1954. Year: 1954, Number: XXXIII, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Dramatic Performances Act, 1954. Year: 1955, Number: III, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Irrigation (Levy of Betterment Contribution) Act, 1955. Year: 1955, Number: IX, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1955. Year: 1956, Number: XXIII, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Silkworm Seed (Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1956. Year: 1956, Number: XXXV, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Official Language Act, 1956. Year: 1956, Number: XLI, Short title: The Tamil Nadu District Collectors' Powers (Delegation) Act, 1956. Year: 1959, Number: 2, Short title: The Tamil Nadu Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1959.

CENTRAL ACTS. The Tamil Nadu Compulsory Labour Act, 1858. For section 6, the following section shall be substituted, namely:- "6. Liability of persons refusing to contribute labour to the maintenance of irrigation and drainage works.-(1) Every person owning lands served by any irrigation or drainage work or any work connected therewith shall, whenever required by public notice by the head of the village under the orders of the Tahsildar or other superior Revenue officer, contribute labour for repairing or properly maintaining such irrigation or drainage work or for repairing or properly maintaining any work connected with such irrigation or drainage work. (2) Every public notice given under sub-section (1) shall be in writing over the signature of the head of the village, shall contain the names of the persons bound to contribute the labour together with such other particulars as may be necessary to identify them, and the period or periods during which the labour should be contributed, and shall be widely made known in the village by affixing copies thereof in conspicuous public places within the village, or by publishing the same by beat of drum and by any other means that the head of the village may think fit. Every such notice shall also be published by affixure in the notice board of the offices of the Tahsildar or other Revenue officer under whose orders the notice was given.

Year: 1881; Number: I; Short title: The Madras Ports Police Act, 1881; Extent of repeal: The whole. Year: 1943; Number: XXIII; Short title: The [Tamil Nadu] Pawnbrokers Act, 1943; Extent of repeal: Sub-section (1) of section 23. Year: 1946; Number: III; Short title: The Madras City Municipal and District Municipalities (Amendment) Act, 1946; Extent of repeal: The whole. Year: 1945; Number: II; Short title: The Madras Estates Land (Amendment) Act, 1945; Extent of repeal: The whole. Year: 1949; Number: V; Short title: The [Tamil Nadu] Agriculturists Relief (Amendment) Act, 1949; Extent of repeal: Section 2. Year: 1956; Number: XXXII; Short title: The Nagarjunasagar Project (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1956; Extent of repeal: The whole. Year: 1958; Number: XIII; Short title: The Andhra Pradesh Urban Areas (Surcharge on Property Tax) Act, 1958; Extent of repeal: The whole.