section 42 indian penal code

INDIAN PENAL CODE

Section 42: “Local Law”

42: “Local Law”::--A “Local law” is a law applicable only to a particular part^1’2’3 of India. 

COMMENTS

A local law is one which relates or operates over a particular locality instead of over the whole territory of the State or the country.

 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1948, for “British India”.

2. The words “the territories comprised in” omitted by Act 48 of 1952, sec. 3 and Sch. II (w.e.f. 2-8-1952).

3. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, sec. 3 and Sch., for “the States” which had been subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “the Provinces”.