General Clauses Act, 1897
Section 8: Construction of references to repealed enactments
[(1)] Where this Act, or any [Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then references in any other enactment or in any instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so re-enacted.
[(2) [Where before the fifteenth day of August, 1947, any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom repealed and re-enacted], with or without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then reference in any [Central Act] or in any Regulation or instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so re-enacted.]
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 15 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 8
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Jaykishor Chaturvedi & Etc. v. Securities and Exchange Board of India
Whether interest on penalties imposed by the Adjudicating Officer is payable by the appellants, and if so, from which date-whether from the date of the adjudication orders passed by the Adjudicating Officer or the…
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Chellammal and Another v. State Represented by the Inspector of Police
Whether the appellants could be granted the benefit of probation either u/s.360(1) of CrPC or u/s.4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958; whether the High Court was justified in not extending the benefit of probation…
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Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India v. Satyanarayan Bankatlal Malu & Ors.
Special Court under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 would be as provided u/s. 435 of the Companies Act as it existed at the time when the Code came into effect, or it would be as provided u/s.435 after the 2018…
- Bhimashankar Sahakari Sakkare Karkhane Niyamita v. Walchandnagar Industries Ltd. (Wil)
- All Kerala Distributors Association, Kottayam Unit, Represented by Its Secretary v. The State of Kerala & Anr.
- Competition Commission of India v. Bharti Airtel Limited and Others
- M/S. Tvs Motor Company Ltd. v. The State of Tamil Nadu and Others
- Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association and Another v. Union of India
- State of Uttarakhand (Previously State of Uttar Pradesh) v. Mohan Singh & Others
- Girnar Traders v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- Ramesh Dass v. Raghu Nath and Ors.
- Gulzar v. State of M.P.
- The State Rep. by Inspector of Police, Pudukottai, Tamilnadu v. A. Parthiban
- Daljit Singh and Ors. v. State of Punjab Through Secretary Home Affairs
- Chani v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- State Through S.P., New Delhi v. Ratan Lal Arora
- Management of M.C.D. v. Prem Chand Gupta and Anr.
- Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation Jaipur v. Smt. Poonam Pahwa and Ors.
- Madras City Wine Merchants' Asson. and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Anr.
- Gauri Shankar Gaur and Ors. Etc. v. State of U.P. and Ors.