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INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS

Laws
passed by
Governor-
General's
Legislative
Council to
'control and
supersede'
laws passed
by Local
Govern-
ments

Restrictions
on law-
making
powers of
Governor-
General's
Legislative
Council

ever, and for all places and things whatever within the
said territories, and for all servants of the Government
of India within the dominions of princes and states in
alliance with Her Majesty ; and the laws and regula-
tions so to be made by the Governor-General in Council
shall control and supersede any laws and regulations in
any wise repugnant thereto which shall have been
made prior thereto by the Governors of the Presidencies
of Fort St. George and Bombay respectively in Council,
or the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor in Council of
any Presidency or other territory for which a Council
may be appointed, with power to make laws and regu-
lations, under and by virtue of this Act : provided
always, that the said Governor-General in Council shall
not have the power of making any laws or regulations
which shall repeal or in any way affect any of the
provisions of this Act :
Or any of the provisions of the Acts of the third
and fourth years of King William the Fourth, chapter
eighty-five, and of the sixteenth and seventeenth
years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety-five, and of the
seventeenth and eighteenth years of Her Majesty,
chapter seventy-severi, which after the passing of this
Act shall remain in force :
Or any provisions of the Act of the twenty-first
and twenty-second years of Her Majesty, chapter one
hundred and six, entitled, "An Act for the Better
Government of India"; or of the Act of the twenty-
second and twenty-third years of Her Majesty, chapter
forty-one, to amend the same :
Or of any Act enabling the Secretary of State in
Council to raise money iri the United Kingdom for the
Government of India :
Or oŁ the Acts for punishing mutiny and desertion
in Her Majesty's Army or in Her Majesty's Indian
Forces respectively, but subject to the provision
contained in the Act of the third and fourth years of
itirig William the Fourth, chapter eighty-five, sfection
seventy-three^ respecting the Indian Articles df War :
Or any provisions of ariy Act passed in this present
sessibn of Parliament, or hereafter to' be passed, in