1. Short title, extent and commencement. --- (1) This Act may
be called the 2* Limitation Act, 1908.
(2) It
extends to the whole of
1. For
Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1908, Pt. V, p.22; for
Report of the Select Committee, see ibid. 1908, Pt. V, p.223, and for
proceedings in Council see ibid., 1908, Pt. VI,
pp.2, 13, 37 and 145.
The Act has
been declared to be in force in Balochistan by the
British Balochistan Laws Regulation, 1913 (2 of
1913), section 3.
It has been
applied to Phulera in the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawal to the extent the Act is applicable in the
N.-W.F.P., see N.-W.F.P. (
It has also
been extended to the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawal
other than Phulera by the N.-W.F.P. (Upper Tanawal) (Excluded Area) Laws Regulation, 1950 and
declared to be in force that area with effect from the 1st June, 1951,
See N.-W.F.P. Gazette, Extraordinary, dated
the 1st June, 1951.
It has also
been extended to the Leased Areas of Balochistan, see
the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950 (G.G.O.3 of
1950) and applied in the Federated Areas of Balochistan,
see Gazette of India, 1937, Pt. I, p.1499.
The Act as in
force in the North-West Frontier Province immediately before the
commencement of N.-W.P.F. Regulation II of 1974 has been applied to the
Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of Chitral,
Dir, Kalam, Swat and Malakand
Protected Areas by Provincially Administered Tribal Areas
(Application of Laws) (Second) Regulation (II of 1974), dated
20-5-1974.
2. The world
"Indian" omitted by the A.O., 1949.
3.
Substituted by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), section 3 and Second Schedule (with
effect from the 14th October, 1955), for subsection (2) which was amended
by the A.O., 1949.
(3) This
section and section 31 shall come into force at once. The
rest of this Act shall come into force on the first day of
January, 1909.