1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Continuance of Legal Proceedings
Act, 1948.
(2) It extends to 2
[the whole of India except 3
[the territories which, immediately before the 1st
November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.]]
2. Interpretation.—In this Act, “the appointed day” means the 15th day of August, 1947.
3. Continuance of legal proceedings.—Any legal proceedings which, immediately before the
appointed day,—
(a) were pending by or against the Secretary of State in any Court within the territories which as
from the appointed day became the territories of India by virtue of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the
Indian Independence Act, 1947, (10 and 11 Geo.6, c. 30), and
(b) were in respect of any right of India or any part of India, shall—
(i) if the right in question was that of the Governor General in Council be continued by or
against the Dominion of India;
(ii) if the right in question was that of the former Province of Bengal or the Punjab, be
continued by or against the Province of West Bengal or East Punjab, as the case may be; and
(iii) if the right in question was that of any Governor’s Province other than Bengal, the
Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province or Sind, be continued by or against that Province.
4. Exclusion of time in computing period of limitation.—In computing the period of limitation
prescribed for any appeal or application to a Court in respect of any such proceedings as aforesaid, the
period from the appointed day up to the 28th day of May, 1948 shall be excluded.
5. Repeal.—(1) The Continuance of Legal Proceedings Ordinance, 1948 (12 of 1948), is hereby
repealed.
(2) Anything done or any action taken in exercise of any powers conferred by or under the said
Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken in exercise of powers conferred by or under this
Act as if this Act had commenced on the 28th day of May, 1948.