Adapted and modified by the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council
An Act to amend the law in force in the Peint Territory in the Bombay Presidency
WHEREAS it is expedient that the law in force in the territory of Peint to which the Secretary of State for India, by a Resolution in Council bearing date, the 14th day of July, 1885, declared the provisions of the Statute 33 Victoria, chapter 3, section 1, to be applicable, should be the same as the law in force in the district of Nasik, and that the said territory should cease to be a Scheduled District under the 3[Scheduled Districts Act, 1874;
And whereas the previous sanction of His Excellency the Governor General required by section 5 of the 2 Indian Councils Act, 1892 ; has been obtained for the passing of this Act
It is hereby enacted as follows
SECTION 01: TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
This Act be called the Peint Laws Act, 1894, and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1895.
SECTION 02: AMENDMENT OF ACT XIV OF 1874 AS TO TERRITORY OF PEINT
Notwithstanding anything in 3 the definition of "Scheduled Districts" in section 1 of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, the territory of Peint shall not be deemed to be a Scheduled District within the meaning of that Act.
1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Bombay Government for Gazette, 1894, Ft. V, 2; for Report of Select Committee, see ibid., p.3 ; and for Proceedings in Council, see ibis*, pp. 17, 19 and 81.
2. See now the Government of India Act, 1935.
3. The Scheduled Districts Act, 1874, ceases to have effect under the Adaptation of Indian Laws Order in Council.
SECTION 03: APPLICATION OF LAWS OF NASIK TO TERRITORY OF PEINT
All enactments which are in force in the district of Nasik and not in the territory of Peint shall come into force in the said territory.
SECTION 04: REPEAL OF OTHER LAWS
All enactments which are in force in the said territory of Peint and not in the district of Nasik shall be repealed in the said territory.
SECTION 05: PENDING PROCEEDINGS
All proceedings commenced before any authority in the said territory before the day on which this Act comes into force and still pending n that day shall be disposed of by such authority a the 1[Provincial Government may direct, and save as aforesaid shall be carried on as if this Act :had not be passed.
