Statute book

Acts that are not operating

18 Acts that are on the statute book and doing nothing: 4 that Parliament passed and never brought into force, and 14 that are spent.

None of these is repealed, so none of them is on the list of repealed Acts. An Act passed but not commenced has no operation at all until the Government appoints a date under its own commencement section. A spent Act had operation and no longer does, usually because it was temporary from the start.

India Code lists each of these as a record with a scanned document and publishes no sections for any of them, so there is no text here to publish. Each title links to the document on India Code. Where that changes, or where the text is recovered the way the repealed codes were, they will get pages of their own.

Passed, never brought into force 4

Spent 14

Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.