Section 1 - The Legal Practitioners Act

1Short title, commencement

This Act may be called the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879; and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1880.

Local extent.--This section and section 2 extend to the whole of India ¹ [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*].

²[The rest of this Act extends, in the first instance, only to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Orissa and Delhi. But the State Government of any State may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend³ all or any of the provisions of the rest of this Act to the whole or any part of that State to which such provisions do not extend.]

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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "except Part B States".

2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for the former paragraph.

3. Under this power, the Act has been extended, subject to certain omissions and so far only as it relates to judicial Courts, Civil and Criminal, to the Madras Presidency, except the Scheduled Districts, from 1st April 1882, see Fort St. George Gazette, 1881, Pt. I, pp. 491 and 707. Ss. 3 and 4 of the Act have been extended to the Regulation Districts of the Bombay Presidency, see Bombay Government Gazette 1885, Pt. I, p. 290; and ss. 13 [except clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) thereof), 34, 36 and 40 have been extended, to the whole of the Bombay Presidency (Bombay Gazette, 1904, Pt. p. 1635). Ch. I, s. 40, Sch. II, and so much of Chs. III, V, VI and VII as relates to pleaders, have been extended to Coorg, see Mysore Gazette, 1879, Pt . I, p. 355; see also Coorg District Gazette, 1891, Pt. 1, p. 140, for notification extending ss. 4, 5 and 38; Coorg District Gazette, 1899, Pt. I, P. 122, for notification extending ss. 3, 13 and 36 as amended by Act 11 of 1896 so far as they relate to pleaders; and Coorg Gazette, 1935, Pt. I, A. 2, for notification extending ss. 4 and 41. Ss. 4 and 41 have been extended to Ajmer-Merwara, see Gazette id India, 1927, Pt, II-A P. 214.

*. Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.