TMI BlogEffect of repealX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... -- (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the repeal takes effect; or (b) affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any enactment so repealed; or (d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... think that the word substitution necessarily or always connotes two severable steps, that is to say, one of repeal and another of a fresh enactment even if it implies two steps. Indeed, the natural meaning of the word "substitution" is to indicate that the process cannot be split up into two pieces like this. If the process described as substitution fails, it is totally ineffective so a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n therein that pending proceedings shall continue and be disposed of under the old rule as if the rule has not been deleted or omitted then such a proceeding will continue. If the case is covered by Section 6 of the General Clauses Act or there is a pari-materia provision in the statute under which the rule has been framed in that case also the pending proceeding will not be affected by omission o ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... In the case of General Finance Co., Vs. ACIT, [2002 (9) TMI 3 - SUPREME COURT], their Lordship Of the Apex Court held that the principle underlying section 6 as saving the right to initiate proceedings for liabilities incurred during the currency of the Act will not apply to omission of a provision in an Act but only to repeal, omission being different from repeal as held in the aforesaid decisio ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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