HC Deb 19 December 1919 vol 123 cc947-8

The Amendments set out in Parts I. and II. of the Second Schedule to this Act, being Amendments to incorporate the provisions of this Act in the principal Act, arid further Amendments consequential on or arising out of those provisions, shall be made in the principal Act, and any question of interpretation shall be settled by reference to the principal Act as so amended. The provisions of the principal Act specified in Part III. of that Schedule, being

SECOND SCHEDULE.
PART I.
The provisions of this Act set out in the first column of the following table shall be incorporated in the principal Act in the manner shown in the second. column of that table, subject to the modifications specified in the third column. of that table:
TABLE.
Provision of Act. Place and Method of Incorporation in the Principal Act. Modifications
Section 10 To be inserted as a new Section (80A) after s. 89. "This Act" to be substituted for "the principal Act"; "the commencement of the Government of India Act, 1919," to be substituted for the commencement of this Act" in Sub-section (3).
Sections HO, 38, 39, and 40 To be inserted as new Sections (96B, 96C, 96D, and 96E) after Suction 96A, constituting a new Part (VII.A) after Part VII. "This Act" to be substituted for "the principal Act," and "the Government of India Act, 1919," to be substituted for "this Act."

provisions which are obsolete or unnecessary, or which require amendment in detail, are hereby repealed or modified, and shall be dealt with, in the manner shown in the second column of that Schedule.

Lords Amendment Insert the following Sub-section: (2) Every enactment and word which is directed by the Government of India (Amendment) Act, 1916, or by this Section and the Second Schedule to this Act, to be substitute-I for or added to any portion of the Government of India Act, 1915, shall form part of the Government of India Act, 1015, in the place assigned to it by the Government of India (Amendment) Act, 1916, or that Schedule; and the Government of India Act, 1915, and all Acts, including this Act, which refer thereto, shall, after the commencement of this Act, be construed as if the said enactment or word had been enacted in the Government of India Act, 1915, in She place so assigned, and, where it is substituted for another enactment or word, had been so enacted in lieu of that enactment or word. A copy of the Government of India Act, 1915, with the Amendments, whether by way of substitution, addition, or emission, required by the Government of India (Amendment) Act, 1916, and by this Section and t be Second Schedule to this Act, shall be prepared and. certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments, and deposited with the Rolls of Parliament, and His Majesty's printer shall print, in accordance with the copy so certified, all copies of the Government of India Act, 1915, which are printed after the passing- of this Act, and the Government of India Act, 1915, as so amended, may be cited as the "Government of India Act. Sub-section (3) of Section eight of the Government of India (Amendment) Act, 1916, is hereby repealed.

—Agreed to.

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