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Enactment, The word 'enactment' does not mean the same thing as 'Act'. Act means the whole Act, whereas a s. or part of a s. may be an enactment, Prabodh Verma v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1984) 4 SCC 251: AIR 1985 SC 167: (1985) 1 SCR 216.

An 'enactment' would include any Act or provision contained therein passed by the Union Parliament or the State Legislature, State of Punjab v. Sukh Deb Sorup Gupta, AIR 1970 SC 1641 (1642). [General Clauses Act, (10 of 1897), s. 3(19)]

Enactment shall include a Regulation (as hereinafter defined) and any Regulation of the Bengal, Madras or Bombay Code, and shall also include any provision contained in any Act or in any such Regulation as aforesaid. [General Clause Act, 1897, s. 3(17)]

The action or process of making into law, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 546.