REGISTERED No. D-28
of India The Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI , MONDAY , MAY 23 , 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LAW
New Delhi , the 23rd May , 1949
The following Act of the Constituent Assembly has been authenticated by the President of the Constituent Assembly by his signature on the 20th May, 1949 , and is hereby published for general information: -
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ACT No. II OF 1949 An Act further to amend the Government of India Act , 1985 .
26 Geo. 5, 0. 2.
WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Govern- ment of India Act , 1935 , for the purposes hereinafter ap- pearing;
It is hereby enacted as follows :-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Government of India Short title (Second Amendment ) Act , 1949 .
and com- mencement
(2) It shall come into force on the 25th day of May, 1949 .
Interpreta . tion .
52 & 53 Vict , o .
2. The Interpretation Act , 1889 , applies for the inter- 63. pretation of this Act as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament .
Govt. of 3. In section 97 of the Government of India Act , 1935 , Amendment (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) , for the words , of section brackets and figures " by or in accordance with a law made 97 of the by the Constituent Assembly under sub - section ( 1 ) of India Act , section 8 of the Indian Independence Act , 1947 " the words 1935 . " by Order of the Governor -General " shall be substituted.
4. In the Seventh Schedule to the said Act ,-
Amendment ofthe (a) in paragraph 1 of the Federal Legislative List , after Seventh the words " Acceding States " a semi - colon and the words Schedule . persons subjected to such detention " shall be added ;
(b) for paragraph 3 of the Concurrent Legislative List , the following paragraph shall be substituted , namely :-
" 3. Removal from one unit to another unit of prisoners , accused persons and persons subjected to preventive detention for reasons connected with the maintenance of public order ." ;
(c) paragraph 34 of the Concurrent Legislative List shall be omitted .
K. V. K. SUNDARAM , Secy .
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