Delegation to Protector

of Emigrants of authority to receive or dispose of applications.

Rules.

(b) causes any Native of India engaged by him for any such purpose as aforesaid to depart from any port which is not a port from which emigration is lawful, or

(c) causes any Native of India engaged by him, after grant of the permission referred to in section 108, to depart by sea out of India without registration of the particulars required by section 109, sub-section (2),

shall, on conviction by a Magistrate of the first class, be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees for each Native of India in respect of whom the offence is committed.

(2) Prosecutions under this section shall not be instituted except by the Protector of Emigrants or by an officer appointed for the purpose by any Local Government.

"112. The Local Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, authorize a Protector of Emigrants to receive or dispose of applica tions made under this Chapter:

Provided that an appeal shall lie to the Local Government from every order passed by a Protector of Emigrants in exercise of the authority so conferred.

"118. (1) The Governor General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, make rules for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Chapter.

(2) All rules under this section shall be made subject to the condition of previous publication."

ACT No. I or 1903,1

[6th March, 1903.]

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

WHEREAS it is expedient to facilitate the citation of the enactments specified in the first schedule to this Act;

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 that certain enactments specified in the third schedule to this Act, which are spent, or have ceased to be in force other

1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1903, Pt. V, p. 72; for Proceedings in Council, see ibid, Pt. VI, pp. 6 and 15,

(Secs. 1-5.)

wise than by express specific repeal, or have by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed;

It is hereby enacted as follows:

1. This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending Act, 1903.
2. Each of the enactments described in the first three columns of the first

schedule may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited for all
purposes by the short title mentioned in that behalf in the fourth column
thereof.

Short title.
Citation of

certain en.

actments.

3. The enactments specified in the second schedule are hereby amended Amendment to the extent and in the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

of certain enactments.

4. The enactments specified in the third schedule are hereby repealed to Repeal of the extent mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

certain enactments.

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

and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing;

nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognized or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed;

nor shall the repeal by this Act of any enactment provide or restore any jurisdiction, office, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemp. tion, usage, practice, procedure or other matter or thing not now existing or in force.

1 Part I, relating to Regulations of the Bengal Code, is omitted.

2 Only so much of this Schedule as refers to General Acts is reproduced here.

Part III, which refers to Bengal Acts alone, is omitted.

Part I of the Second Schedule, which relates to Bengal Regulations only, is omitted, and only so much of Part II as relates to General Acts is reproduced here.

1867

1872

Part 11-Acts of the Governor General in Council-coutd.

III The Public Gambling In section 1, for the definitions of LieutenAct, 1867-contd. ant-Governor and Chief Commissioner substitute the following, namely:

In section 82, for certificates of marriages, and also for marriage certificates, substitute certificates for marriage.

In Schedule II, after declaration insert or oath,

In section 3, for The Lieutenant-Governors of the North-Western Provinces and the Punjab and the Chief Commissioners of Oudh, the Central Provinces, British Burma, substitute The Lieutenant-Governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the Punjab and Burma, and the Chief Commis sioner of the Central Provinces.

In section 42 (added by the Legal Practitioners Act, 1884, section 9), before the words and figures Act I of 1846 insert So much of Chapter VI of Bombay Regulation II of 1827 as has not been repealed.