Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937

Temporary user of existing forms of official documents.

12.—(1) It shall be lawful for every official person and body and every governmental authority, whether legislative, judicial, or executive, for so long as may be convenient, to use, for the purposes of any official document issued, received, provided or otherwise used by him or them, the form of document which was lawfully so used immediately before the coming into operation of the Constitution.

(2) Every form of document used, by virtue of this section, for any purpose by any official person or body or any governmental authority, whether legislative, judicial, or executive, shall be deemed for all purposes to be lawfully used for that purpose.

(3) An impressed stamp shall be deemed to be a document within the meaning of the foregoing sub-sections of this section and those sub-sections shall apply and have effect in relation to impressed stamps accordingly.