22 August,2016 06:36 AM IST | | Agencies
As many as 64 Acts, some of them dating back to 1876, were repealed by the Maharashtra legislature during the recently concluded monsoon session
As many as 64 Acts, some of them dating back to 1876, were repealed by the Maharashtra legislature during the recently concluded monsoon session.
Maharashtra Repealing Act, 2016 is a part of larger exercise to delete 191 such irrelevant and outdated legislations which have been deemed fit for removal from the statute book by the Law Commission.
Some of the legislations repealed include:
>> The Maharashtra Dog Race-courses Licensing Act, 1976, which regulated dog races.
>> Bombay Racecourses Licensing and Bombay Betting Tax Acts (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958, which provided for levying tax on money paid in all forms of races including dog races.
>> The Tolls on Roads and Bridges Act, which dated back to 1875. It empowered the officers to levy toll on road traffic. The rate ranged from R1 for four-wheeled carriage on springs, to 12 annas for carts and hackery (two wheel cart or sledge on springs drawn by horse or any other animal).
>> The Bombay Smoke Nuisances Act, introduced in 1912. There was also a Smoke Nuisances Commission to
regulate and take action against illegal alterations in furnaces.
>> The Cattle-Trespass (Bombay Amendment) Act of 1931, which required that owners accept the ownership of the cattle and pay prescribed security.
>> The Indian Lunacy, Bombay District Municipal Act, 1936, which provided for a local authority for recovery of the cost of the maintenance of lunatics.
