The Tamil Nadu Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Re-Enacting Act, 1956
Tamil Nadu enacted the Tamil Nadu Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Re-Enacting Act, 1956, Act 6 of 1956, as a primary law that preserves specified actions taken under an earlier Act and treats them as taken under the re-enacted provisions. The supplied record lists an effective date of 1 January 1949, but the extracted text refers to actions from 26 January 1956 until publication in the Fort St. George Gazette and does not give the publication date. No issuing department is named in the supplied text.
What the Act does
The Tamil Nadu Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Re-Enacting Act, 1956, Act 6 of 1956, contains a savings provision for actions connected with an earlier Act that had expired and was re-enacted. The provision prevents specified official and legal actions from becoming ineffective merely because of the expiry and re-enactment.
The supplied record lists 1 January 1949 as the effective date. The extracted statutory text separately identifies a period beginning on 26 January 1956 and ending when Act 6 of 1956 was published in the Fort St. George Gazette. It does not state the Gazette publication date or name an issuing department.
Actions preserved
The Tamil Nadu Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Re-Enacting Act, 1956 preserves anything done or any action taken under the earlier Act in either of these circumstances:
- While the earlier Act was in force immediately before its expiry.
- On or after 26 January 1956 and before publication of Act 6 of 1956 in the Fort St. George Gazette, where action was taken on the footing that the earlier Act remained in force at the relevant time.
The preserved matters expressly include:
- Rules or orders made.
- Notifications issued.
- Decisions, awards or directions given.
- Proceedings taken.
- Liabilities or penalties incurred.
- Punishments awarded.
These matters are treated as having been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the earlier Act as re-enacted.
Protection from punishment
The Tamil Nadu Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Re-Enacting Act, 1956 does not make a person liable to punishment merely because the person did or failed to do something contrary to the earlier Act on or after 26 January 1956 and before Gazette publication of Act 6 of 1956.
Relevance to property readers
The supplied extract does not set out any land ownership, sale, registration, planning or title procedure. Its direct effect is to preserve listed governmental and legal actions under the re-enacted framework. A reader affected by an order, notification, proceeding, liability or penalty under that framework may need to check the authoritative Gazette text. The supplied copy carries a PRS Legislative Research disclaimer stating that it has not been independently verified and recommends consulting the relevant state department or latest government publication.
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Common questions
Does Act 6 of 1956 keep earlier government orders and notifications valid?
Yes. Rules, orders, notifications, decisions, awards, directions and proceedings covered by the savings provision are treated as taken under the corresponding re-enacted provisions.
Can someone be punished for conduct during the period before Gazette publication?
The savings provision does not make a person liable to punishment for something done or omitted contrary to the earlier Act on or after 26 January 1956 and before publication of Act 6 of 1956 in the Fort St. George Gazette.
Does the supplied text change land registration or property title rules?
The supplied extract does not mention land registration, property titles, sales or planning approvals. It addresses the preservation of specified actions under an earlier Act that was re-enacted.
Does the document give the Fort St. George Gazette publication date?
No. The extracted text refers to publication in the Fort St. George Gazette but does not provide the publication date.
