#THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT,  2015
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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##SECTIONS 

1. Short title.
2. Repeal of enactments.
3. Amendment of certain enactments.
4. Savings.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE. 
THE SECOND SCHEDULE.



#THE REPEALING AND AMENDING ACT, 2015 

##ACT NO. 17 OF 2015 

[13th May, 2015.]

An Act to repeal certain enactments and to amend certain other enactments. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. **Short title.** — This Act may be called the Repealing and Amending Act, 2015. 

2. **Repeal of certain enactments.**— The enactments specified in the First Schedule are hereby 
repealed to the extent mentioned in the fourth column thereof. 

3. **Amendment of certain enactments.**—  The enactments specified in the Second Schedule are 
hereby amended to the extent and the manner mentioned in the fourth column thereof. 

4. **Saving.**—  The  repeal  by  this  Act  of  any  enactment  shall  not  affect  any  Act  in  which  such 
enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to; 

and  this  Act  shall  not  affect  the  validity,  invalidity,  effect  or  consequences  of  anything  already 
done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred, or any 
remedy  or  proceeding  in  respect  thereof,  or  any  release  or  discharge  of  or  from  any  debt,  penalty, 
obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the proof of any past act or 
thing;

nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or course of 
pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or 
appointment,  notwithstanding  that  the  same  respectively  may  have  been  in  any  manner  affirmed, 
recognised or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed;

nor  shall  the  repeal  by  this  Act  of  any  enactment  provide  or  restore  any  jurisdiction,  office, 
custom,  liability,  right,  title,  privilege,  restriction,  exemption,  usage,  practice,  procedure  or  other 
matter or thing not now existing or in force. 
 
 
 
###THE FIRST SCHEDULE 

(See Section 2) 

###REPEALS

| Year | No. | Short title | Extent of repeal |
| ----- | ----- | ------------- | --------------------- |
| 1897 | 4 | The Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 | The whole |
| 1947 | 47 | The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1947 | The whole |
| 1978 | 49 | The Sugar Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1978 | The whole |
| 1999 | 30 | The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1999 | The whole |
| 1999 | 33 | The Indian Majority (Amendment) Act, 1999 | The whole |
| 1999 | 34 | The Administrators-General (Amendment) Act, 1999 | The whole |
| 1999 | 36 | The Notaries (Amendment) Act, 1999 | The whole |
| 1999 | 39 | The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Act, 1999 | The whole |
| 2001 | 30 | The Repealing and Amending Act, 2001 | The whole |
| 2001 | 49 | The Mariage Laws (Amendment) Act, 2001 | The whole |
| 2001 | 51 | The Indian Divorce (Amendment) Act, 2001 | The whole |
| 2002 | 26 | The Indian Succession (Amendment) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2002 | 37 | The Legal Services Authorities (Amendment ) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2002 | 72 | The Representation of the People (Third Amendment) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2003 | 3 | The Transfer of Property (Amendment) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2003 | 4 | The Indian Evidence (Amendment) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2003 | 6 | The Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2003 | 9 | The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2002 | The whole |
| 2003 | 24 | The Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003 | The whole |
| 2003 | 40 | The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2003 | The whole |
| 2003 | 46 | The Election and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003 | The whole. |
| 2003 | 50 | The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003 | The whole. |
| 2004 | 2 | The Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Act, 2003 | The whole. |
| 2004 | 3 | The Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2003 | The whole. |
| 2005 | 4 | The Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 2004 | The whole. |
| 2005 | 39 | The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 | The whole. |
| 2006 | 31 | The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2006 | The whole. |
| 2008 | 9 | The Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2008 | The whole. |
| 2008 | 10 |  The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2008 | The whole. |
| 2009 | 41 | The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2009 | The whole. 
| 2010 | 30 | The Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2010 | The whole. |
| 2010 | 36 | The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 2010 | The whole. |
| 2012 | 29 | The Anand Marriage (Amendment) Act, 2012 | The whole. |
| 2012 | 33 | The Administrators-General (Amendment) Act, 2012 | The whole. |
| 2013 | 28 | The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2013 | The whole. | 
 

###THE SECOND SCHEDULE 

(See section 3)  

###AMENDMENTS 

| Year | No. | Short title | Amendments |
| ------ | ---- | ------------- | ------------------ |
| 2013 | 25 | The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 | In the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 1, for the words “the notification”, the words “the said notification” shall be substituted. |
| 2014 | 17 | The Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011 | (a) In the Enacting Formula, for the words “Sixty-second Year”, the words “Sixty-fifth Year” shall be substituted; and 
| | | | (b)  in sub-section (1) of section 1, for the figures “2011”, the figures “2014” shall be substituted. |