REMEDIAL STATUTES :HOW FAR USEFUL AND EFFECTIVE

A Rough Draft submitted in partial fulfilment of the course ISPL,7th

SEMESTER during the Academic Year 2019-2020.

SUBMITTED BY:
Anupama Soumya
Roll No. - 1613
B.B.A LL.B

SUBMITTED TO:
Prof. Dr.S. Ali Mohmmad
FACULTY OF ISPL

August, 2019
CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, NAYAYA NAGAR,
MEETHAPUR, PATNA-800001
INTRODUCTION:

The term interpretation means “To give meaning to”. Governmental power has been divided into
three wings namely the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. Interpretation of statues to
render justice is the primary function of the judiciary. It is the duty of the Court to interpret the
Act and give meaning to each word of the Statute. The most common rule of interpretation is that
every part of the statute must be understood in a harmonious manner by reading and construing
every part of it together.
Remedial statutes are those statutes which have come to be enacted on demand of the permanent
public policy generally receive a liberal interpretation. On constructing a remedial statute the
courts ought to give it ‘the widest operation’ which the language of statute will permit.
Courts exist only to see that a particular case is within the mischief to be remedied and whether it
falls within the language of the enactment.

A statute may in certain aspects be a penal enactment and in certain others a remedial one. In
respect of those provisions which are sanctioned on the pain of punishment for a crime the rule
of strict construction in the limited sense may be applied. At any rate, as undue effort to construe
such a provision liberally to promote the beneficent purpose behind it may be effectively counter
balanced on consideration that a breach thereof leads to penal consequences

CHAPTERIZATION

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: THE RULES OF INTERPRETATION

CHAPTER 3: REMEDIAL STATUTE

CHAPTER 4: : PENAL STATUTE

CHAPTER5: PURPOSIVE INTERPRETATION APPROACH

CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Primary method of research was adopted in the making of this project.

Various literary works and Books from the library and the internet, were used extensively in
collecting the data essential for this study.