Act Number: 25

Act Name: The Advocates Act, 1961

Year: 1961

Enactment Date: 1961-05-19

Long Title: An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the legal practitioners and to provide for the constitution of Bar Councils and an All-India Bar.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Department of Legal Affairs

Section 59: Removal of difficulties.
    (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, particularly in relation to the transition from the enactments repealed by this Act to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the purposes of this Act, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty.
     (2) An order under sub-section (1) may be made so as to have retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the 1st day of December, 1961.]
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