Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 · Chapter V: Supplemental Provision
Section 34: Application of Act to Presidency-towns
The Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 was repealed by the Telecommunications Act, 2023 (from 26 June 2024; Part III still applies to transmission lines under the Electricity Act, 2003). The text is kept here because the judgments below apply it.
(1) This Act, in its application to the Presidency-towns, shall be read as if for the words "District Magistrate" in section 16, subsection (1), and section 17, sub-sections (2) and (3), for the words "Magistrate of the first or second class" in section 18, sub-section (1), [and section 19A, sub-section (2)] and for the word "Magistrate" in section 18, sub-section (2), there had been enacted the words "Commissioner of Police", and for the words District Judge in section 16, sub-sections (3), (4) and (5), the words "Chief Judge of the Court of Small Causes".
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(3) The fee in respect of an application to the Chief Judge of a Presidency Court of Small Causes under sub-section (3). of section 16 shall be the same as would be payable under the Court fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), in respect of such an application to a District Judge beyond the limits of a Presidency-town, and fees for summonses and other processes in proceedings before the Chief Judge under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of that section shall be payable according to the scale set forth in the Fourth Schedule to the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882).
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