LOK SABHA

The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on 3rd December, 2014:-

BILL NO.155 OF 2014

A Bill to repeal certain enactments and to amend certain other enactments.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending (Second) Act, 2014.

2. The enactments specified in the First Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

3. The enactments specified in the Second Schedule are hereby amended to the extent and the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof.

4. The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any Act 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the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed;

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

THE FIRST SCHEDULE

(See section 2)

REPEALS

THE SECOND SCHEDULE

(See section 3)

AMENDMENTS

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

This Bill is one of those periodical measures by which enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become obsolete or the retention whereof as separate Acts is unnecessary are repealed or by which the formal defects detected in enactments are corrected.

2. The notes which follow explain the reasons for the amendments suggested in such of those items of the Bill in respect whereof some detailed explanation is necessary.

3. Clause 4 of the Bill contains a precautionary provision which it is usual to include in the Bill of this kind.

NEW DELHI;
The 2nd December, 2014.

D V SADANANDA GOWDA

NOTES ON THE SECOND SCHEDULE

1. The Railways (Amendment) Act, 2008.-The amendment proposed to the Act seeks to rectify the mistake that had inadvertently crept in at the time of enactment of the Act.

2. The Indian Maritime University Act, 2008.- The amendment proposed to the Act seeks to rectify patent errors.

Anoop Mishra
Secretary-General