#THE ORIENTAL GAS COMPANY ACT, 1867
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

##PREAMBLE 

##SECTIONS 

2. Power to extend Act 5 of 1857.  


#THE ORIENTAL GAS COMPANY ACT, 1867 

##ACT NO. 11 OF 1867 

[1st March, 1867.] 

An Act to empower the Oriental Gas Company Limited, to extend their operations to certain 
places in the Provinces of India.

**Preamble.**—WHEREAS under or by virtue of Act No. V of 1857 (to confer certain powers on the 
Oriental Gas Company, Limited), certain powers exercisable only in Calcutta and its environs were 
conferred  on the  Oriental Gas  Company,  Limited; and  whereas  it  is  expedient to  empower  the  said 
Company to extend, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, their operations to any 
other place in the Provinces of India; It is hereby enacted as follows: —

2. **Power to extend Act 5 of 1857.** —The Central Government may, by notification in the 
Official  Gazette,  extend  the  said  Act  No.  V  of  1857,  to  any  place in the  territories  which, 
immediately  before  the  1st  November, 1956, were comprised in Part A States and Part C states
other than Calcutta and its environs: Provided that, in every place to which the said Act shall be so 
extended, section 3 of the same Act shall be read as if for the words ‘Town of Calcutta’,  the name     
of  the  place  to  which the said  act  shall  be so extended were substituted: section 7 of the same Act 
shall be read as if for the words and figures ‘Act XIV of 1856’, the following words were substituted; 
(that is to say) ‘any law for the time being in force to provide for the conservancy and improvement   
of such place:’ Section 22 of the said Act shall be read, as if after the words ‘Joint Stock Companies’ 
Act, 1856’ the followings words were inserted; (that is to say) ‘the Indian Companies’ Act, 1866, or 
any other Statute or Act for the time being in force relating to Joint Stock Companies’ ; and as if for 
the expression ‘Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William’, the  name of the highest Civil Court of 
appeal  in  such  place  were  substituted;  and  as  if  for  the  expression  ‘the  territories  of  the  East  India 
Company’, the expression the States were substituted.