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None of these is repealed, so none of them is on the list of repealed Acts.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 Where that changes, or where the text is recovered the way the repealed codes were, they will get pages of their own.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
- The Essential Defence Services Act, 2021 2021
- The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2011 2011
- The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2009 2009
- The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second Act, 2009 2009
- The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2007 2007
- The Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006 2006
- The Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1981 1981
- The Newspapers (Price Control) Act, 1972 1972
- The Defence and Internal Security of India Act, 1971 1971
- The Emergency Risks (Goods) Insurance Act, 1971 1971
- The Emergency Risks (Undertakings) Insurance Act, 1971 1971
- The Essential Services Maintenance Act, 1968 1968
- The Defence of India Act, 1962 1962
- The Inheritance Act, 1839 1839
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.