Repealed
CPC, 1908 · Part II · Execution
Collector to be Deemed to be Acting Judicially — Section 72 [Repealed]
This section is no longer in force. It was the last of the old Collector-execution group: when the Collector executed decrees under the Third Schedule, it deemed him to be acting judicially. The same 1956 amendment repealed it.
§ 72
[ Repealed ]
Section 72 carries no operative text today
Former marginal heading: Collector to be deemed to be acting judicially.
Repealed by s. 7 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1956 (66 of 1956) — the same provision (“ibid”) that repealed §§ 68 to 71.
In short
Section 72 closed the Collector-execution group (§§ 68–72): while executing decrees handed to him under the Third Schedule, the Collector was deemed to be acting judicially — clothing his acts with judicial character and the protection that goes with it. When the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1956 abolished the whole scheme, s. 7 repealed § 72 together with §§ 68 to 71. With this, the Collector-execution chapter of the Code closes; the series resumes with the still-live § 73.
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Part II · Execution · Section 72 — [Repealed].