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Revl•al of repealed eoactment1 In any Act it shall be necec;sary for the purpose of reviving either wholly or partially, any enactment wholly or partially repealed, expressly to state that purpose. NOTES StctloJJ 1. Undef! the English Common Law when a repealing enact- ment was repeated by another statute tbe repeal of the second Act revived the former Act 'ab initio'. but undet' this section if an Act repealing a former Act is itself repealed. the last l'epeal docs not revive the Act hefore repeated unless words are added reviving it. [.4meer-un·Nessa v. Mahboob Begum, AI 't 191:i SC 3' 2]. Where the repealing Act was struck down as void and constitution fro m its inception. it could not have tho effect as if it had repealed the previous Acts [AIR 1974 SC 1480) . (This section h similar to S. 1 of tbe Central Act.)