The Haryana Abolition of Whipping Act, 1974 Complete Act - Bare Act

(Received the assent of the President of India on the 9tli October, 1974, and first published for general information in the Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), Legislative Supplement. Part I of 4th November, 1974).

An Act to provide for the abolition of whipping as a punishment.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

(1) This Act may be called the Haryana Abolition of Whipping Act, 1974.

(2)

It extends to the whole of the State of Haryana.

The punishment of whipping as provided in any law with respect to any of the matters specified in the Slate and Concurrent Lists of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India is hereby abolished.

The Punjab Abolition of Whipping Act, 1957 (Punjab Act 25 of 1957), in its application to the State of Haryana, is hereby repealed.