Act Number: 7

Act Name: The Delhi Law Act, 1915

Year: 1915

Enactment Date: 1915-03-22

Long Title: An Act to declare the law in force in certain territory added to the Province of Delhi.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 3: Continuance in added area of certain laws now in force in the United Provinces.
    The enactments specified in Schedule III, and all notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms and by-laws issued, made or prescribed under those enactments shall continue to be in force in the territory specified in Schedule I:
     Provided that in the enactments so continued and in all notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms and by-laws issued, made or prescribed thereunder, reference to a Local Government, the LieutenantGovernor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, or the Board of Revenue for the United Provinces shall be read as referring to the Chief Commissioner of Delhi; references to a High Court or the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces as referring to the Chief Court of the Punjab; and references to the official gazette for the United Provinces as referring to the Gazette of India.
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