The Legal Practitioners Act, 1879Central Act · Act 18 of 1879
This Act may be called the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879; and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1880.
Local extent.--This section and section 2 extend to the whole of India [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.].
[The rest of this Act extends, in the first instance, only to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and Delhi. But the State Government of any State may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act to the whole or any part of that State to which such provisions do not extend.]
Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.
substituted, Act 3 of 1951. . Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "except Part B States".
substituted. . Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for the former paragraph.
other, Act 11 of 1896. . Under this power, the Act has been extended, subject to certain omissions and so far only as it relates to judicial Courts, Civil and Criminal, to the Madras Presidency, except the Scheduled Districts, from 1st April 1882, see Fort St. George Gazette, 1881, Pt. I, pp. 491 and 707. Ss. 3 and 4 of the Act have been extended to the Regulation Districts of the Bombay Presidency, see Bombay Governme…
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