General clauses acts

By:

Mahajan, Vidya Dhar

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lucknow; Eastern Book Company; 1980Edition: 5th edDescription: 961 pSubject(s):

DDC classification:

340 MAH 5th ed.

Summary: The importance of an enactment like the General Clauses Act cannot be over-emphasised. Its object is to shorten the language of statutory enactments and to provide for uniformity of expression in those cases in which the subject matter is the same. It is for this reason that the Act has been appropriately called "the Legislative Dictionary". In the words of the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Mahajan of the Supreme Court of India, "the General Clauses Act has been enacted so as to avoid superfluity of the language in statute where it is possible to do so. The Legislature instead of saying in Or. 40, R. 1, that the Court will have power to appoint, suspend or remove a receiver, simply enacted that wherever convenient, the Court may appoint a receiver and it was implied in the language that it may also remove or suspend him" (1950) F. C. 140). Mr. Chalmers has described the Act as "a Drafting Accidents Prevention Bill". Evidently, the object of the Act is to prevent accidental slips in drafting the bills.

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The importance of an enactment like the General Clauses Act cannot be over-emphasised. Its object is to shorten the language of statutory enactments and to provide for uniformity of expression in those cases in which the subject matter is the same. It is for this reason that the Act has been appropriately called "the Legislative Dictionary". In the words of the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Mahajan of the Supreme Court of India, "the General Clauses Act has been enacted so as to avoid superfluity of the language in statute where it is possible to do so. The Legislature instead of saying in Or. 40, R. 1, that the Court will have power to appoint, suspend or remove a receiver, simply enacted that wherever convenient, the Court may appoint a receiver and it was implied in the language that it may also remove or suspend him" (1950) F. C. 140). Mr. Chalmers has described the Act as "a Drafting Accidents Prevention Bill". Evidently, the object of the Act is to prevent accidental slips in drafting the bills.

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