Section 1 Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Delhi Laws Act, 1915;
(2) It shall come into force on the first day of April, 1915.
Section 2 Application to added area of law in force in existing Province of Delhi.
All enactments(except the enactments specified in Schedule II) for the lime being in force in the territory specified inSchedule A to the Delhi Laws Act, 1912 (XIII of 1912), and all notifications, orders, schemes, rules,forms and by-laws issued, made or prescribed under such enactments shall be deemed to be in force in theterritory specified in Schedule I in the same manner and subject to the same modifications as they are forthe time being in the territory specified in the said Schedule to the said Act.
Section 3 Continuance in added area of certain laws now in force in the United Provinces.
Theenactments specified in Schedule III, and all notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms and by-lawsissued, made or prescribed under those enactments shall continue to be in force in the territory specifiedin Schedule I:
Provided that in the enactments so continued and in all notifications, orders, schemes, rules, formsand by-laws issued, made or prescribed thereunder, reference to a Local Government, the LieutenantGovernor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, or the Board of Revenue for the United Provincesshall be read as referring to the Chief Commissioner of Delhi; references to a High Court or the HighCourt of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces as referring to the Chief Court of the Punjab; andreferences to the official gazette for the United Provinces as referring to the Gazette of India.
Section 4 Provision for facilitating application of certain enactments.
For the purpose of facilitating theapplication to the territory mentioned in Schedule I of the enactments referred to in Section 3, the powersconferred by sections 4 and 5 of the Delhi Laws Act, 1912 (XIII of 1912), shall be exercisable in respectthereof.
Section 5 Exclusion of certain enactments from the added area.
Save as provided in sections 2 and 3 noenactment which is in force in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh or any part thereof, shall continueto be in force in the territory specified in Schedule I.
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