Home › CS Executive › jurisprudence › General Clauses Act 1897 › Section 9 of the General Clauses Act provides a …
Section 9 of the General Clauses Act provides a default rule on commencement and termination of time. To exclude the first day in a series of days and include the last, which words must be used?
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A.
1. Section 9(1) provides: 'In any Central Act or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, it shall be sufficient, for the purpose of **excluding the first** in a series of days or any other period of time to use the word **'from'**, and, for the purpose of **including the last** in a series of days or any other period of time, to use the word **'to'**.'
2. So 'from 1st April to 30th April' excludes 1st April and includes 30th April by default unless the contrary appears.
3. This default rule is invaluable for limitation, tenure of office, and time-bound notice provisions.
4. Options A, C and D invent their own meaning for these prepositions which the GCA does not endorse.
_Source: ICSI CS Executive — Lesson 4, 'Commencement and termination of time (Section 9)', p. 109._
Related questions
Section 5(1) of the General Clauses Act provides the default rule for the commencement of Sections 5 to 13 of the General Clauses Act contain provisions relating to:In *Mangharam v. K.B. Kher, A.I.R. 1956 M.B. 183*, the Madhya Bharat High Court interpreteSection 4 of the General Clauses Act extends certain Section 3 definitions to enactments mUnder Section 3(35) of the General Clauses Act, 'Month' is defined as:Section 3(42) of the General Clauses Act defines 'Person'. Which of the following is correUnder Section 3(26) of the General Clauses Act, the definition of 'immovable property' incUnder Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, when does service by post of any document req