General Clauses Act, 1897 – Test 1

The General Clauses Act, 1897 intends to:

The General Clauses Act is one of the oldest Acts, came into force on:

The preamble is most important in any legislation, it:

As per a Rule of an Educational Institution, every student may come on weekends for extra classes but every
student shall appear on a weekly test conducted in the institute, which means

Which of the following is not an Immovable Property?

Section _________ of the Act defines certain words and expressions

Where an Act of Parliament does not expressly specify any particular day as to the day of coming into operation
of such Act, then it shall come into operation on the day on which _________

In any Central Act or regulation made after the commencement of this Act, it shall be sufficient, for the purpose
of __________ the first in a series of days or any other period of time, to use the word ‘from’, and for the
purpose of ___________ the last in a series of days or any other period of time, to use the word ‘to’,

Where, by any Central Act or regulation made after the commencement of this Act, any act or proceeding is
directed or allowed to be done or taken in any court or office on a certain day or within a prescribed period, then,
if the court or office is closed on that day or the last day of the prescribed period, the act or proceeding shall be
considered as done or taken in due time if it is done or taken on ____________

In the measurement of any difference, for the purpose of any Central Act or Regulation made after the
commencement of this Act, the distance shall, unless a different intention appears, be measured ___________

Where, by any enactment now in force or hereafter to be in force, any duty of customs or excise, or in the nature
thereof, is leviable on any given quantity, by weight, measure or value of any goods or merchandise, then a like
duty is leviable according to the same rate on any ___________.

Statement (1): In all Central Acts and Regulations, any words which denote the masculine gender shall also
be taken to include females, and vice versa.
Statement (2): In all Central Acts and Regulations, words in the singular shall include the plural, but not vice
versa.

Where a power to appoint any person to fill any office to execute any function is conferred, then, such
appointment may be made ____________

Where, by any Central Act or Regulation, a power to issue any notification, order, scheme, rule, from or bye-law,
shall, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, have the same respective meaning as in
_________.

Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under two or more enactments, then the offender shall be liable
to be prosecuted or punished ___________

Where any Central Act or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act authorizes or require any
document to be served by the post, then, unless a different intention appears, the service shall be deemed to have
been effected ____________

The object of General Clause Act, 1897 is ___________

Where any Central Act or Regulation provides for serving of any documents by post (post also includes
expression like ‘serve’, ‘give’’, ‘send’, or ‘any other expression’), then it shall be served effectively if it is posted by

Ordinance is promulgated by

Which of the following is not treated as Immovable Property

‘Year’ shall mean a year reckoned according to the British calendar i.e.