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#THE ORIENTAL GAS COMPANY ACT, 1867
##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
##PREAMBLE
##SECTIONS
- 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: —
- 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.