Act Info:
THE BOMBAY COURT-FEES (AMENDMENT AND CONTINUANCE) ACT, 2010
[Act No. 09 of 2010]
[27th April, 2010]
PREAMBLE
An Act
An Act further to amend the Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959.
WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra had promulgated the Bombay Court-fees (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009, on the 11th August 2009, which had come into force on the 1st September, 2009;
AND WHEREAS, upon the re-assembly of the State Legislature on the 8th December, 2009, the Bombay Court-fees (Amendment) Bill, 2009 (L.A. Bill No, XIX of 2009), for replacing the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature, was introduced in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on the 8th December, 2009, however, the said Bill could not be passed by the Maharashtra Legislature Assembly as the session of the State Legislature was prorogued on the 23rd December 2009;
AND WHEREAS, the said Ordinance was promulgated by the Governor of Maharashtra on the 11th August, 2009 and thereafter, in the meanwhile, the Maharashtra Legislature Assembly was summoned to re-assemble on the 9th November, 2009 and the Maharashtra Legislative Council was summoned to re-assemble on the 11th November, 2009, as provided by the Explanation to clause (2) of article 213 of the Constitution of India, the said Ordinance had ceased to operate at the expiration of six weeks from the 11th November, 2009, that is, after the 22nd December 2009;
AND WHEREAS, it was considered expedient to continue the operation of the provisions of the said Ordinance;
AND WHEREAS, both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session and Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate action to continue the operation of the provisions of the said Ordinance, for the purposes hereinafter appearing; and, therefore, promulgated the Bombay Court-fees (Amendment and Continuance) Ordinance, 2010, on the 22nd February 2010;
AND WHEREAS, it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature; it is hereby enacted in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows--