Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 170, BSA: Repeal and savings
Section 170 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, in the Act's own words.
What it replaces
Nothing: the official comparison summary marks this provision as new in the BSA, with no equivalent in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The whole table: Evidence Act to BSA.
The section
170. Repeal and savings.
(1) The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872) is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, if, immediately before the date on which this Adhiniyam comes into force, there is any application, trial, inquiry, investigation, proceeding or appeal pending, then, such application, trial, inquiry, investigation, proceeding or appeal shall be dealt with under the provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), as in force immediately before such commencement, as if this Adhiniyam had not come into force.The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.
Sources
- India Code: Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, section 170 (read 1 September 2026)
- Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BSA to Evidence Act (read 1 September 2026)