Legal Practitioners Act,1879
Act No : 18
Section :
Short title, commencement.
1. Short title, commencement. This Act may be called the LegalPractitioners Act, 1879; and shall come into force on the first dayof January, 1880.Local exetnt.- This section and section 2 extend to the whole of India3*[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir].4*[The rest of this Act extends, in the first instance, only to theterritories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, werecomprised in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, MadhyaPradesh, Assam, Orissa and Delhi. But the State Government of anyState may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette,extend 1*** all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act tothe whole or any part of that State to which such provisions extend.]The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the Union territory ofManipur, vide Act 30 of 1950, as amended by Act 68 of 1956.As amended in Madras by Mad. Act 12 of 1960.Extended to the transferred territories in Punjab by Pun Act 41 of1960.Extended to the whole of Madhya Pradesh by Madhya Pradesh Act 23 of1958 (when notified).---------------------------------------------------------------------1 This Act has been extended to Berar by the Berar Laws Act, 1941(4 of 1941). It has been declared to be in force in the Angul Districtby the Angul Laws Regulation, 1936 (5 of 1936), s. 3 and Sch., andalso by notification under s. 3 of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874(14 of 1874), in the Districts of Hazaribagh, Lohardaga and Manbhumand Pargana Dhalbhum and the Kolhan in the District of Singbhum, seeGazette of India, 1881, Pt. I, p. 504. The District of Lohardaga (nowcalled the Ranchi District, see Calcutta Gazette, 1889, Pt. I, p. 44)included at this time the District of Palamau, which was separated in1894.It has been amended in its application to-- Bengal by Ben. Act 5 of 1942; C.P. and Berar by C.P. & Berar Act 25 of 1939: Madras by Mad. Acts 3 of 1943, 14 of 1944, 9 of 1947 and 17 of 1950; Orissa by Orissa Act 6 of 1938; and U.P. by U.P. Acts 4 of 1925 and 4 of 1936.The Act has not been extended to the State of Manipur, vide Act 30 of1950, s. 3 and Sch. as amended by Act 68 of 1956.2. Subs. bythe A.O. 1948 for "the Lower Provinces of Bengal, the North-WesternProvinces, the Punjab, Oudh, the Central Provinces and Assam, and toempower each of the Local Government of the rest of British India toextend to the territories administered by it". 3 Subs. by Act 3 of1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "except Part B States". 4 Subs. by theAdaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for the former paragraph.6
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