BLS LLB 5 Years Sem 9 Interpretation of Statutes Jan 2018 Question Paper with Solutions

First published on munotes.in on 11 August 2026.

This edition revised 18 September 2026.

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The answers in this volume state the law as it stands today, not as it stood when the paper was set, and two changes matter here. Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, on service by post, is the most examined provision in this subject, and the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025 replaced "registered post" in it with "speed post with registration" from 20 December 2025, so every textbook printed before 2026 states the old words. And the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act were replaced on 1 July 2024 by the three Sanhitas of 2023, which matters because section 3(27) of the General Clauses Act still defines imprisonment by naming the Penal Code: it is section 8 of that same Act, on references to a repealed and re-enacted provision, that keeps the definition working. Where a question turns on a provision since replaced, the answer gives it as it then stood and the present position, and says which is which.