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Monday, 27 August 2012

THE ADVOCATES ACT,1961

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The Bill seeks to implement the recommendations of the All India Bar Committee made in 1953, after taking into account the recommendations of the Law Commission on the subject of Reform of Judicial Administration in so far as the recommendations relate to the Bar and to legal education.
The main features of the Bill are, -
(1) The establishment of an All India Bar Council and a common roll of advocates, and advocate on the common roll having a right to practice in any part of the country and in any Court, including the Supreme Court;
2. The integration of the bar into a single class of legal practitioners know as advocates;
3. The prescription of a uniform qualification for the admission of persons to be advocates;
4. The division of advocates into senior advocates and other advocates based on merit;
5. The creation of autonomous Bar Councils, one for the whole of India and on for each State.
Following the recommendations of the All India Bar Committee and the Law Commission, the Bill recognised the continued existence of the system known as the dual system now prevailing in the High Court of Calcutta and Bombay, by making suitable provisions in that behalf: It would, however, be open to t he two High Courts, if they so desire, to discontinue this system at any time.

THE ADVOCATES ACT,1961

Indian Penal Code 1860

Title and extent of operation of the Code.-- This Act shall be called the Indian Penal Code, and shall 3[ extend to the whole of India 4[ except the State of Jammu and Kashmir]].

2. Punishment of offences committed within India.-- Every person shall be liable to punishment under this Code and not otherwise for every act or omission contrary to the provisions thereof, of which he shall be guilty within 5[ India] 6[ .

3. Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within, India.-- Any person liable, by any 7[ Indian law], to be tried for an offence committed beyond 5[ India] shall be dealt with according to the provisions of this Code for any act committed beyond 5[ India] in the same manner as if such act had been committed within 5[ India].

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Indian Contract Act, 1872

This Act may be called be the Indian Contract Act, 1872.
Extent, commencement - It extends to the whole of except the State of Jammu and Kashmir; and it shall come into force on the first day of September, 1872.
Enactment repealed - [***] Nothing herein contained shall affect the provisions of any Statute, Act or Regulation not hereby expressly repealed, nor any usage or customs of trade, nor any incident of any contract, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.

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CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Criminal Procedure.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1.Short title, extent and commencement-
(1) This Act may be called the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir:

Provided that the provisions of this Code, other than those relating to Chapters VIII, X and XI thereof, shall not apply-

(a)to the State of Nagaland,

(b)to the tribal areas,

but the concerned State Government may, by notification, apply such provisions or any of them to the whole or part of the State of Nagaland or such tribal areas, as the case may be, with such supplemental, incidental or consequential modifications, as may be specified in the notification.