Act Number: 15

Act Name: The Indian Tolls Act, 1864

Year: 1864

Enactment Date: 1864-03-24

Long Title: An Act to amend Act VIII of 1851 (for enabling Government to levy Tolls on Public Roads and Bridges).

Ministry: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Department:

Section 3: Power to extend Act.
    The State Government may extend this1 Act to any place in which the said Act 8 of 1851 is in force; and the State Government of any place in which the said Act 8 of 1851 is not in force may extend the said Act 8 of 1851 and this Act to such place.2
Notes:
1. The Act now regulating tolls in the Presidency of Bombay is the Tolls on Roads and Bridges Act, 1875 (Bom. 3 of 1875). That Act repealed Act 8 of 1851 in the Bombay Presidency, see s.1, and declared that Act 15 of 1864 should be deemed to have been extended thereto as from the 30th July, 1864, see s. 2.
2. Act 8 of 1851 and this Act have been extended to Oudh (see Gazette of India, 1865, Pt. I, p.777), the C.P. (see ibid., Pt.I, 1871, p.611) and to the District of Lakhimpur (see Assam Gazette, 1935, Pt. II, p.1025).
As to the authority of the Provincial Government in any part of the Provinces, not specified in s. 2 of Act 8 of 1851, to which that Act or this Act may be or have been extended see the Indian Tolls Act, 1888 (8 of 1888), s. 2(1).

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