Section 1

Short title. Extent.

The Destruction of Records Act, 1917

  • Act 5 of 1917
  • Ministry of Law and Justice
  • Legislative Department
About this Act

An Act to consolidate and amend the law providing for the destruction or other disposal of certain documents in the possession or custody of Courts and Revenue and other

All sections
    This Act may be called the Destruction of Records Act, 1917.
     1[It extends to the whole of India except 2[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].]
                                                    STATE AMENDMENT
    Karnataka
    Amendment of section1 of Central Act V of 1917.--In section 1 of the principal Act, after the expression “except the territories Which immediately before the 1st November 1956 were comprised in Part ‘B’ States”, the expression “other than the territories specified in clause (a) and clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956)” shall be added.
[Vide Karnataka Act 3 of 1963, s. 3].

Notes

1. Ins. by the A.O. 1950.
2. Subs. by the A.O. (No. 3) 1956, for "Part B States ".

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