Act Number: 5

Act Name: The Destruction of Records Act, 1917

Year: 1917

Enactment Date: 1917-02-28

Long Title: 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

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 1: Short title. Extent.
    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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