THE KARNATAKA REPEALING OF CERTAIN ENACTMENTS AND REGIONAL LAWS Act, 2020

KARNATAKA ACT NO. 52 OF 2020

30th November 2020

An Act to repeal certain enactments and regional Laws inforce in the State. Whereas it is expedient to repeal certain enactments and regional Laws in force in the State. Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Seventy first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

S.1 Short title and Commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Repealing of Certain Enactments and Regional Laws Act, 2020.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

S.2 Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

• (a) "regional laws" mean laws in force in the former States of Bombay, Coorg, Hyderabad, Madras and Mysore immediately before 1st November 1956, and continued in force under section 119 of the States Reorganization Act 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956) in the respective Areas of those States which are now part of Karnataka State; and
• (b) "Schedule" means a Schedule annexed to this Act.

S.3 Repeal of certain enactments and regional Laws

The enactments specified in the First Schedule, Second Schedule and regional Laws specified in Parts A to E of the Third schedule as in force in the respective areas of the State are hereby repealed.

S.4 Savings

(1) The repeal by this Act of any enactment or regional laws,-

• (i) shall not affect any other enactment or regional laws in which the repealed enactment or regional laws has been applied, incorporated or referred to;
• (ii) 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 ;
• (iii) shall not 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 or recognised or derived by, in or fr
  

First Schedule.

Third Schedule.

(See Section 2 and 3)