Government of India Act 1935

Government of India Act 1935
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to make further provision for the government of India.
Citation25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 42
Dates
Royal assent2 August 1935
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1976
Status: Repealed
Government of India (Reprinting) Act 1935
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to divide the Government of India Act, 1935, into two portions and to make in the wording thereof certain changes which either are consequential on the division or remove minor errors; to provide for the certification, the deposit with the Rolls of Parliament, and the printing, of the said portions as if they were separate Acts of Parliament; to secure that the said portions have effect in lieu of the said Government of India Act, 1935, as from the date of the passing of that Act; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
Citation26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 1
Dates
Royal assent20 December 1935
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1976
Status: Repealed
Government of India Act 1935
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to make further provision for the government of India.
Citation26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 2
Territorial extent 
Dates
Royal assent2 August 1935
Commencement1 April 1937
Repealed26 January 1950 (India)
23 March 1956 (Pakistan and Bangladesh)
19 November 1998 (United Kingdom)
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1998 (United Kingdom)
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Government of Burma Act 1935
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to make further provision for the government of Burma.
Citation26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 3
Dates
Royal assent2 August 1935
Other legislation
Repealed byBurma Independence Act 1947
Status: Repealed
India and Burma (Existing Laws) Act 1937
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to explain and amend sections two hundred and ninety-two and two hundred and ninety-three of the Government of India Act, 1935, and sections one hundred and forty-eight and one hundred and forty-nine of the Government of Burma Act, 1935.
Citation1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 9
Dates
Royal assent18 February 1937
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1976
Status: Repealed

The Government of India Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 42) was an act passed by the British Parliament that originally received royal assent in August 1935. It was the longest act that the British Parliament ever enacted until the Greater London Authority Act 1999 surpassed it.[citation needed] Because of its length, the act was retroactively split by the Government of India (Reprinting) Act 1935 (26 Geo. 5. & 1 Edw. 8. c. 1) into two separate acts:

The act led to: