The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY Off LAW
New Delhi, the 4th June 1949
The following Act of the Constituent Assembly has been authenticated by the President of the Constituent Assembly by his signature on the 31st May, 1919, and is hereby published for general information:—
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY A CT N O. III OF 1949
An Act to amend the India {Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the India (Central
Government and Legislature) Act, 1946, for the purposes
9 &10 Geo. 6, C. 39.
hereinafter appearing ;
It is hereby enacted as follows :—
1. (1) This Act may bo called the India (Central Govern-
ment and Legislature) Amendment Act, 1949.
Short title and com- mencement.
(2) It shall come into force, on the 10th day of June, 1949.
2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies for the interpre-
52 & 53 Vict
Interpreta- tion.
C. 63
tation of this Act as it applies for the interpretation of an
Act of Parliament.
3. In paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the
India (Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946,
Amendment. of section 2 of the India (Central
Governments (a) after the words " woollen textiles", the words
and brackets " r aw cotton (including ginned cotton
and Legisla- tive) Act, 1946.
and unginned cotton or Icapas) and cotton seed" shall
be inserted;
(b) after the word " coal ", the brackets and words
" (including coke and other derivatives of coal) " shall
958 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, JUNE 4, 1949 4. For the removal of doubts it is hereby enacted—Validity of certain lawn made under eootion 2 of th" India (Central Government and Legisla- ture) Aot,
1946. (a) that all laws heretofore mado under-section 2 of tho India (Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946, with respect to trade and oommerco (whether or not within a Province) in, and tho production, supply and distribution of, coal shall be deemed to have been made under the said section as amended by this Act ;
(b) the t no order made under, and no action taken in exercise of any power conferred by or under, any yi.ch law shall bo doomed to be invalid or call d in
It. V. K. SUNDAltAM,