| Short Title: | Government of India Act 1915 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to consolidate enactments relating to the Government of India. |
| Year: | 1915 |
| Citation: | 5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 61 |
| Royal Assent: | 29 July 1915 |
| Commencement: | 1 January 1916 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Government of India Act 1935 |
| Status: | Repealed |
The Government of India Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 61) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which consolidated prior acts of Parliament concerning British India into a single act. It was passed in July 1915 and went into effect on 1 January 1916.
The act repealed 47 prior acts of Parliament, starting with an act of 1770, and replaced them with a single act containing 135 sections and five schedules. It was introduced first to the House of Lords, where it was referred to a joint committee of Parliament chaired by Lord Loreburn. The committee removed several provisions which went beyond the simple consolidation of existing law.
| Short Title: | Government of India (Amendment) Act 1916 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to amend certain enactments relating to the government of India, and to remove doubts as to the validity of certain Orders in Council made for India. |
| Year: | 1916 |
| Citation: | 6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 37 |
| Royal Assent: | 23 August 1916 |
| Commencement: | 1 September 1916 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
A supplemental act, mostly technical in nature and including several of the provisions struck out of the consolidation act, was introduced and passed in 1916, becoming the (6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 37).
The Government of India Act 1915 and its supplemental act the following year "made the English statute law relating to India easier to understand, and therefore easier to amend."[1] The Government of India Act 1919 made substantial changes to the law.