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C')ostructioo of reference• to repealed enactments Where any Act repeals and re-enacts with or without modification . any provision of a former enactm.:nt, tben references in any other enactment or in any instrument to the provision so repealed shall unless a different intention appears, be coos- trued as references to the provisions so rc-ena~ted. 796 North-Ea.rern. ReiJon Local Acl.f & .&41•1 LS. 9 NOTES Where the .. e is no repeal or re-enactment this section will not apply. [AIR 1976 HP 6]. Under sub-S ( l) of this section where any Act repeals and re-enact• with or without modiflcation, any provision of a former enactment then references in any such enactment or in any instrument to tbe provisions so repealed shall, unless a different iotetion appears, be construed as references to the provisions so re-enacted . lN C J. Mills & Co. v. The Asstt. Collector ofCemra/ Excise, AIR 1971 SC 454. See also '\lR h66 SC 1995]. 'rhe word "instrument" as used in this section includes any order of President as envisaged under Act 359 ( I) of the Constitution. [AlR 1964 SC 17 3]. The Supreme Court io the case of State of U. P v M. P. Singh, [AtR t9fl0 SC 569) observed that the reference in the defiuition by which clerical and other establishments of factories are included is to the Factories Act of 1Y34, but, by virtue of this section, it must be construed as a reference to the provisions of the Factories Act of 1948, which repealed the Factories Act of 1934 and re-enacted it. (This section is similar to S. 8 of the Central Act).