Section 2 of the Court-fees Act, 1870, as added by the Court-fees (Amendment) Act, 1901, dealt with:

The original section 2 concerned repeal of enactments and was itself repealed by Act 14 of 1870. The definition of Chief Controlling Revenue-authority was added by Act 10 of 1901 and later repealed by the 1937 Adaptation Order. The original enactment and the later substituted definition are different historical provisions.