Stage-Carriages Act,1861
Act No : 16
Section :
Interpretation-clause "Magistrate".
21.Interpretation-clause "Magistrate". The term "Magistrate" in this Act shall include all Magistrates and other persons exercising the powers of a 2Magistrate: 3* * * * * * Act applicable to all animals used for drawing carriages. 4[All expressions and provisions which in this Act are applied to horses shall also apply to a other animals employed in drawing any carriage ordinarily use for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire to or from any place in the States:] 5* * * * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Added by Act 1 of 1898, s. 4. 2 As to officers exercising the powers of a Magistrate, see s. 3 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act 5 of 1898). 3 The definition of "British India" omitted by the A. O. 1937. 4 Subs. by Act 16 of 1876, s. 1, for the third sentence. 5 The definitions relating to "number" and "gender" rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s.3 and Sch. II. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 1[22. Extent of Act. This Act, as amended by subsequent Acts, extends to the whole of India except 2[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States) ; but it shall not apply to carriages ordinarily plying for hire within the limits of any municipality or cantonment or, other place in which any law for the regulation of carriages is for the time being in force.
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