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Orders under a repealed and re-enacted Act continue if they are:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Penal Code sections on fines apply to fines under any Act (section 25)?Read the answer and worked solution →An act that is an offence under two Acts can be:Read the answer and worked solution →Service by post is deemed effected when the letter is:Read the answer and worked solution →An enactment may be cited by short title or by its:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the General Clauses Act, document includes matter shown by:Read the answer and worked solution →Ship includes any vessel used in navigation unless propelled only by:Read the answer and worked solution →Where personal law permits adoption, father includes:Read the answer and worked solution →Act, used for an offence or civil wrong, includes a series of acts and:Read the answer and worked solution →Which body falls within local authority under the General Clauses Act?Read the answer and worked solution →Commissioner is the chief revenue officer of a:Read the answer and worked solution →Gazette means the Gazette of India or the:Read the answer and worked solution →For a Union territory, State Government now means:Read the answer and worked solution →The definitions in section 3 apply unless anything is repugnant in:Read the answer and worked solution →Section 4 extends some definitions to Regulations made on or after 14 January of:Read the answer and worked solution →If an Act that textually amended another is repealed, the amendment:Read the answer and worked solution →After a repeal, a person guilty of an earlier offence:Read the answer and worked solution →Which set lists the three main English rules of statutory interpretation?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the mischief rule set out in Heydon's Case?Read the answer and worked solution →Heydon's Case first asks what the common law was:Read the answer and worked solution →The mischief rule aims to suppress the mischief and:Read the answer and worked solution →Smith v Hughes, on soliciting from balconies, applied which rule?Read the answer and worked solution →Which classic rule gives a judge more discretion than literal or golden?Read the answer and worked solution →The plain meaning rule is also known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the literal rule, if the words are clear, the court:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the plain meaning rule, technical terms are given:Read the answer and worked solution →The golden rule avoids a literal reading that leads to:Read the answer and worked solution →How many approaches does the golden rule have?Read the answer and worked solution →Re Sigsworth barred a murderer's heirs from inheriting, on grounds of:Read the answer and worked solution →The purposive approach reads an enactment in light of its:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Orders under a repealed and re-enacted Act continue if they are:

  1. Not inconsistent with new law
  2. Re-published within a year
  3. Approved by the President
  4. Re-approved by Parliament
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Correct answer: A. Not inconsistent with new law

Section 24 keeps such orders and rules in force so far as they are not inconsistent with the re-enacted provisions.

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Which Penal Code sections on fines apply to fines under any Act (section 25)?

  1. Sections 52 to 60
  2. Sections 76 to 90
  3. Sections 120A to 120B
  4. Sections 63 to 70
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Correct answer: D. Sections 63 to 70

Section 25 applies Sections 63 to 70 of the Indian Penal Code, which deal with fines, to fines imposed under any Act or rule.

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An act that is an offence under two Acts can be:

  1. Punished under either, but not twice
  2. Punished separately under both
  3. Punished only under the older Act
  4. Punished only under the newer Act
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Correct answer: A. Punished under either, but not twice

Section 26 allows prosecution under either enactment but bars punishing the offender twice for the same offence.

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