equally applicable to amendatory statutes. According to Crawford:
Amendatory statutes are subject to the general principles... relative to retroactive operation. Like original statutes, they will ... statute itself.
22. From the above decision , it is clear that amendatory statutes, like original statutes, will not be given retroactive construction, unless the language
referred to.
4(ii) Validity of legislations retroactively curing
defects in taxing statutes is well recognised and courts,
except under extraordinary circumstances, would be reluctant ... validation of taxing
statute struck-down by courts for certain defects; the
period of such retroactivity, and the decree and extent of
any unforeseen
also settled that unless there are words in the statute sufficient to show the intention of the legislature to affect existing rights it is deemed ... thinking of the Courts seems to be 'curative statutes' normally retroactive and a fresh statutes are prospective. Thus where a statute simply codifies
from a defect in a
statute and seek a windfall from the
legislature's mistakes. Validity of legislations
retroactively curing defects in taxing statues ... validation of a taxing
statute struck down by courts for certain
defects; the period of such retroactivity, and
the degree and extent of any unforeseen
from the legislature's mistakes. Validity of
legislations retroactively curing defects in taxing statutes is well
recognised and courts, except under extraordinary circumstances, would ... validation of taxing statute
struck down by courts for certain defects; the period of such
retroactivity, and the degree and extent of any unforeseen
Supreme Court said that, if a statute is curative or merely declares the previous law, retroactive operation would be more rightly ascribed to it than
applicable to declaratory statutes. A substantive right as accrued by the appellant is clarificatory in nature. Curative statutes are by their very nature are intended ... well settled that if a statute is curative or merely declares the previous law, retroactive operation would be more rightly ascribed to it than
STATUTORY INTERPRETATION" respectively, the following principles emerge out :-
(i) Statutes of limitation are regarded as procedural and the law of limitation which applies ... that it was not the intention of the Legislature.
(iii) Retroactive operation of a statute is looked upon with disfavour if it takes away
able to cure defects in statutes. No individual can acquire a vested right from a defect in a statute and seek a windfall ... from the legislature's mistakes. Validity of legislations retroactively curing defects in taxing statutes is well recognised and courts, except under extraordinary circumstances, would
argument that the retrospective rule making is ultra vires the Statute, it is necessary to clear the ground by pointing out that all these rules ... that the rule in this case is not so much retrospective as retroactive. His contention in 'essence is that when the duty was imposed
