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Section 4: Application of foregoing definitions to previous enactments.

The General Clauses Act, 1897Central Act · Act 10 of 1897

(1) The definitions in section 3 of the following words and expressions, that is to say, "affidavit", "barrister", *** "District Judge', "father", ***, ***, *** "immovable property", "imprisonment", *** "Magistrate", "month", "movable property", "oath", "person", "section", "son", "swear", "will", and "year" apply also, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, to all [Central Acts] made after the third day of January, 1868, and to all Regulations made on or after the fourteenth day of January, 1887.

(2) The definitions in the said section of the following words and expressions, that is to say, "abet", "Chapter", "commencement", "financial year", "local authority", "master", "offence", 'part", "public nuisance", "registered, schedule', "ship", "sign', "sub-section" and "writing" apply also, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, to all [Central Acts] and Regulations made on or after the fourteenth day of January, 1887.

Where this provision sits

ActThe General Clauses Act, 1897
Section4
Marginal noteApplication of foregoing definitions to previous enactments.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it6

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • omitted. . The words "British India" omitted by the A.O. 1937.
  • omitted. . The words "Government of India" omitted, ibid.
  • repealed, Act 18 of 1919. . The words "Her Majesty" or "the Queen" rep. by Act 18 of 1919, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
  • omitted. . The words "High Court" omitted by the A.O. 1937.
  • omitted. . The words "Local Government" omitted, ibid.
  • substituted. . Subs., ibid., for "Acts of the Governor-General in Council".

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