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Schedule, a small scroll; a writing additional or appendant, as a list of fixtures in a lease or details of any matter contained in the body of a deed, document., or of enactments repealed and other supplementary matter in an Act of Parliament, e.g., the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which has twenty-two schedules; an inventory.

--shall mean a schedule to the Act or Regulation in which the word occurs. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(52)]

Schedule, in the House of Commons, when a Bill is under consideration, the Schedule is taken up after all the clauses and new clauses have been considered; this order may be changed by moving a motion to that effect and the Schedule may be considered after the clause to which it is related. A Schedule can be amended like any clause, new Schedule can also be moved and considered, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 2001, p. 494.

Schedule, is a list, catalogue, or inventory of details, often as an explanatory supplement to a Will, bill of sale, deed etc., Webster American Dictionary, p. 1303.

Schedule, is as much a part of the Statute and as much an enactment as any other part; it must be read together with the Act for all purposes of Construction, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 540-541.

Means a part of a Bill or the Constitution which contains matters of details dependent on the clauses thereof; the provisions of Schedule are carried into effect by means of three clauses, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 494.

Means Schedule I regarding occupational Therapy or Schedule II regarding physiotherapy appended to this Act. The Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(t)]