The Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants Protection and Payment of Fair Rent (Extension to Shencottah Taluk) Act, 1959

(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants Protection and Payment of Fair Rent (Extension to Shencottah Taluk) Act, 1959. (2) It shall come into force at once.

The Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1955 (Tamil Nadu Act XXV of 1955), and the Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants (Payment of Fair Rent) Act, 1956 (Tamil Nadu Act XXIV of 1956), as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the said Acts) are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the Shencottah taluk of the Tirunelveli district (hereinafter referred to as the said taluk).

Any law corresponding to either of the said Acts in force in the said taluk immediately before the commencement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the corresponding law) shall stand repealed on such commencement.

(1) The repeal, by section 3, of the corresponding law shall not affect— (a) the previous operation of the corresponding law or anything done or duly suffered thereunder ; or (b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the corresponding law ; or (c) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid ; and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), anything done or any action taken including any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, rule, regulation or form framed, certificate granted or registration effected under the corresponding law shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the said Acts and shall continue in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under the said Acts.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1891 (Tamil Nadu Act I of 1891), shall apply for the interpretation of the said Acts as extended to, and in force in, the said taluk.

For the purpose of facilitating the application of the said Acts in the said taluk, any court or other authority may construe the said Acts with such alterations not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt them to the matter before the court or other authority.

(1) Any reference in the said Acts to a law which is not in force in the said taluk shall, in relation to that taluk, be construed as a reference to the law, if any, in force in that taluk corresponding to the law referred to in the said Acts. (2) Any reference in any law which continues to be in force in the said taluk after the commencement of this Act to the corresponding law shall, in relation to that taluk, be construed as a reference to the said Acts.