Section 18(3) of the Arms Act, 1959 requires the period prescribed for an appeal to be computed in…

Section 18(3) of the Arms Act, 1959 provides that the period prescribed for an appeal against an order of the licensing authority is to be computed in accordance with the law of limitation relating to the computation of periods of limitation. The section names the Indian Limitation Act, 1908, which was repealed and re-enacted by the Limitation Act, 1963, so the reference is now read as one to the 1963 Act (s.8 of the General Clauses Act, 1897), whose Part III (ss.12 to 24) governs computation of limitation. The appeal period itself is prescribed by rules under the Act, but s.18(3) sends its computation to the limitation law, not to the Arms Rules, the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam or the BNSS. Hence "The Limitation Act, 1963".