The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 16] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MAY 30, I966/JYAJSTHA 9, 1888
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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-
Short title sion of Duration) Act, 1966.
(153)
154 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART I I —S K. 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,