
 Union of India - Act
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 The Oriental Gas Company
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 UNION OF INDIA
   
 India
 
 The Oriental Gas Company
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 Act 5 of 1857
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* Published in Gazette of India on 13 February 1857
* Not commenced
1. Amended by
 [The Oriental Gas Company Act, 1867 (Act 11 of 1867) 
 on
 
 1 March 1867
 
 ]

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 An Act to empower the Oriental Gas Company Limited, to extend their operations to certain places in 1[the Provinces of India].
 
 WHEREAS under or by virtue of Act No. V of 1857 (to confer certain powers on the Oriental Gas Company, Limited), certain powers exercisable only in Calcutta and its environs were conferred on the Oriental Gas Company, Limited; and whereas it is expedient to empower the said Company to extend, with the previous sanction of the 2[Central Government], their operations to any other place in 1[the Provinces of India]; It is hereby enacted as follows:
 
### 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1948, for "British India".
### 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
### 1. [Interpretation clause.]. Rep. by the A.O. 1937.
 
### 2. Power to extend Act 5 of 1857. The 2 [Central Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the said Act No. V of 1857, to any place 3 [in 4 [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part A States and Part C states] ] other than Calcutta and its environs: Provided that, in every place to which the said Act shall be so extended, section 3 of the same Act shall be read as if for the words 'Town of Calcutta', the name of the place to which the said act shall be so extended were substituted: section 7 of the same Act shall be read as if for the words and figures 'Act XIV of 1856', the following words were substituted; (that is to say) 'any law for the time being in force to provide for the conservancy and improvement of such place:' Section 22 of the said Act shall be read, as if after the words 'Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1856' the followings words were inserted; (that is to say) 'the Indian Companies' Act, 1866, or any other Statute or Act for the time being in force relating to Joint Stock Companies' ; and as if for the expression 'Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William', the name of the highest Civil Court of appeal in such place were substituted; and as if for the expression 'the territories of the East India Company', the expression the States 5 \*\*\* were substituted.
 
### 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1948, for "British India". ###
 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
### 3. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "in the Provinces" which has been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "within the territories subject to such Govt."
### 4. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "the States".
### 5. The words "as defined in this Act" omitted by the A.O. 1948

