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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS ________ SECTIONS 1. Short title and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Extension of Code of Civil Procedure and Arbitration Act, 1940, to Goa, Daman and Diu. 4. Repeal and saving. 5. Rules of construction. 6. Power to remove Difficulties. 7. Consequential provisions.

ACT NO. 30 OF 1965

[25th September, 1965.]

An Act to provide for the extension of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and the Arbitration

Act, 1940, to the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu and for certain other matters.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Goa, Daman and Diu

(Extension of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Arbitration Act) Act, 1965.

(2) It shall come into force on such date1

as the Central Government may, by notification in the

Official Gazette, appoint.

Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “Goa, Daman and Diu” means the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu;

(b) “Lieutenant-Governor” means the administrator of Goa, Daman and Diu appointed by the

President under article 239 of the Constitution.

Extension of Code of Civil Procedure and Arbitration Act, 1940, to Goa, Daman and

Diu.—The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), and the Arbitration Act, 1940 (10 of 1940), as

in force in the territories to which they generally extend, are hereby extended to, and shall be in force

in, Goa, Daman and Diu.

Repeal and saving.—(1) So much of any law in force in Goa, Daman and Diu as corresponds

to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), or the Arbitration Act, 1940 (10 of 1940), or any

part of the said Code or Act, as the case may be, shall stand repealed as from the coming into force of

this Act in Goa, Daman and Diu:

Provided that the repeal shall not affect—

(a) the previous operation of any law so repealed or anything duly done or suffered

thereunder, or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any law so

repealed, or

obligation or liability as aforesaid,

and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced as if

this Act had not been passed:

Provided further that, subject to the preceding proviso, notifications published, declarations and

rules made, places appointed, agreements filed, awards made or filed, scales prescribed, forms

framed, appointments made and powers conferred under any law so repealed shall, so far as they are

consistent with the said Code or, as the case may be, the said Act have the same force and effect as if

they had been respectively published, made, appointed, filed, prescribed, framed and conferred under

the said Code or the said Act and by the authority empowered thereby in such behalf.

(2) In every law or notification passed or issued before the commencement of this Act in which

reference is made to or to any Chapter or section or provision of any law hereby repealed, such

reference shall, so far as may be practicable, be taken to be made to the said Code or, as the case may

be, to the said Act or its corresponding Part, Order, section or rule.

15th, June, 1966, vide notification No. S.O. 1597(E), dated 24th, June, 1966, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary

Part II, sec. 3(ii).

Rules of construction.—(1) In the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), and in the

Arbitration Act, 1940 (10 of 1940),—

(a) any reference to any provision of law not in force, or to any functionary not in existence,

in Goa, Daman and Diu shall be construed as a reference to the corresponding law in force, or to

the corresponding functionary in existence, in that Union territory:

Provided that—

(i) if any question arises as to who that corresponding functionary is, or

(ii) if there is no such corresponding functionary,

the Lieutenant-Governor shall decide as to who such functionary will be and his decision shall

be final;

(b) any reference to the State Government shall be construed as a reference to the Central

Government and also as including a reference to the Lieutenant-Governor.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application in relation to Goa, Daman and Diu of the said

Code or the said Act, any court or other authority may construe it in such manner not affecting the

substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the court or other authority.

Power to remove Difficulties.—If any difficulty arises in giving effect in Goa, Daman and Diu

to the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), or the Arbitration

Act, 1940 (10 of 1940), extended by this Act to that Union territory, the Central Government may, by

order in the Official Gazette, make such provisions or give such directions as appear to it to be

necessary for the removal of the difficulty.

Consequential provisions.—As from the commencement of this Act, in the Goa, Daman and

Diu (Judicial Commissioner’s Court) Regulation, 1963 (Reg. 10 of 1963),—

(i) in section 8, in sub-section (1), the words “Subject to the provisions of any law for the time

being in force” shall be inserted at the commencement;

(ii) in section 16, after the words “subject to the provisions of this Regulation”, the words

“and until other provision is made by law” shall be inserted;

(iii) in section 17, in sub-section (1), after the word “shall”, the words “, until other provision

is made by law,”, shall be inserted.