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ACT No V of 1897.

Passed by the Governor General of India in Council.

(Received the assent of the Governor General on the 25th February, 1897.)

An Act to repeal certain obsolete enactments and to amend and facilitate the citation of certain other enactments.

WHEREAS it is expedient that certain enactments specified in the first schedule to this Act which are spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express specific repeal, or have by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed;

And whereas it is also expedient that certain formal amendments should be made in the enactments specified in the second schedule to this Act;

And whereas it is also expedient to facilitate the citation of the enactments specified in the third schedule to this Act;

It is hereby enacted as follows:—

Title and commencement. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending Act, 1897; and (2) It shall come into force at once.

Enactments in schedules repealed and amended respectively.

2. (1) The enactments specified in the first schedule are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

(2) The enactments specified in the second schedule shall be modified to the extent and in the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

Savings 3. The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any Act or Regulation in which such enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to;

and