The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1847
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OP LAW
(Reforms)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 2nd December 1947
No. G. G. 29.—The following Order made by the Gover-
nor-General is published for general information:—
THE INDIA PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES (AMEND- MENT) ORDER, 1947.
WHEREAS in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 9 of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, the Governor- General was pleased to make the India (Provincial Legis- latures) Order, 1947 (which Order as subsequently amended by the India Provisional Constitution and Provincial Legis- latures (Amendment) Order, 1947, is hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order");
AND WHEREAS sub-section (5) of section 19 of the said Act provides that any power conferred by that Act to make any order includes power to revoke or vary any order previously made m the exercise of that power ;
AND WHEREAS sub-section (3) of section 9 of the said Act provides that any order made under that section may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the third day of June, 1947;
Now, THEREFORE, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him as aforesaid and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor-General is pleased to make the following Order : —
1. This Order may be cited as the India Provincial Legis-
latures (Amendment Order. 1947
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/314 TH45 GAZETTE OF INDIA J4XTKAOBDINAHY, DEC. 2, 19472. To paragraph (2) of Article 9 of the principal Order, the following proviso shall be added, and shall be deemed always to have been added, namely:-
"Provided that nn the petition of any person who on
the appointed day was a member both of a Provin- cial Legislature in India and of a Legislature in Pakistan and who due to circumstances beyond his control was unable to resign his seat in the latter Legislature within the limit of time prescribed in this paragraph, the Governor-General may extend the said limit by such period as he thinks fit."
MOUNTBATTEN OE BURMA,
Governor-General.
K. V. K. SUNDARAM,