The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II- Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 19] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1965/ ASADHA 15,1887
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MINISTRY OF LAW
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 6th July, 1965\Asadha 15, 1887 (Saka) THE NORTH-EAST FRONTIER AGENCY (CONSTRUC- TION OF REFERENCES TO STATE GOVERNMENT) REGULATION, 1965 No. 4 OF 1965 Promulgated by the President in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India. A Regulation to provide for the construction of references to State Government in certain laws in force in the North-East Frontier Agency.
In exercise of the powers conferred by article 240 of the Constitution, read with sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 18 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, the President is pleased to promulgate the following Regulation made by him:—
Short title, extent and commence- ment.
1. (2) This Regulation may be called the North-East Frontier Agency (Construction of References to State Government) Regulation, 1965.
230 THE G \2?:: & OF INDIA EXTRAORDINAEY [PART II—SEC. II (2) It extends to the whole of the North-East Frontier Agency.(3) It shall come into fr -ce at once.
Definitions. 2. In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,—
i of 1954 (a) the expression "North-East Frontier Agency" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the North-East Frontier Areas (Administration) Regulation, 1954;
(b) the expression "existing law" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (10) of article 366 of the Constitution;
(c) "law in force" shall mean—
(i) any existing law;
(ii) any Act of Parliament;
(Hi) any Ordinance or Regulation made by the President;
and
(iv) any rule, order, bye-law, regulation or other instru- ment made under any such Act, Ordinance or Regulation Construction of references to State Government in Acts of Parliament, etc.
3. In any law in force In the North-East Frontier Agency, references to the State Government shall, save as otherwise expressly provided by any other law for the time being in force, be construed as references to the Governor of Assam acting as the agent of the President.
Valid atfou. 4. Anything done or any action taken before the commencement of this Regulation by the Governor of Assam in relation to the North- East Frontier Agency in the exercise of the powers or the discharge of the functions of the State Government under any law in force therein shall be deemed to have been done or taken by the Governor of Assam as the agent of the President and accordingly any such thing or any such action shall be deemed to have been validly and lawfully done or taken.
S. RADHAKRISHNAN,
President.
R. C. S. SARKAR,