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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 16]

NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MAY 30, I966/JYAJSTHA 9, 1888

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF LAW

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 30th May, 1966/Jyaistha 9, 1888 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament

received the

assent of

the

President on the 29th May, 1966, and is hereby published for general

information: —

THE ORISSA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (EXTENSION

OF DURATION) ACT, 1966

No, 16 OF 1966

[29th May, 1966]

An Act to provide for the extension of the duration of the

present Legislative: Assembly of the State of Orissa.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year

of the

Republic of India as follows: —

1. This Act may be called the Orissa Legislative Assembly (Exten-

sion of Duration) Act, 1966.

Short title

(153)

154

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY

[PART II—SK. 1]

Extension

of dura-

tion of

the present

Orissa

Legislative

Assomhiv

2. The period of five years [being the period for which the Legis-

lative Assembly of a Statr may, under clause (1) of article 172 of the

Constitution, continue from the date appointed for its first meeting]

in relation to the present Legislative Assembly of the State of Orissa

t hall, while the Proclamation of Emergency issued on the 26th day

of October, 1962, is in operation, be extended up to the 1st day of

March, 1967:

Provided that if the Proclamation ceases to operate before the

1st day of March, 1967, the present Legislative Assembly of the State

of Orissa shall, unless previously dissolved under clause (2) of article

174 of the Constitution, continue until six months after the cesser of

aperation of the Proclamation and no longer.

S. P. SEN-VARMA,

Secy, to the Govt, of India.

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