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REGISTERED No. D. 221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 2

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 65] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25,I966/AGRAIIAYANA 4, 1888

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

as a separate compilation

RAJYA SABHA

The following Bilk were introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 25th November, 1966: —

I

BILL NO. XX OF 1966

A Bill further to amend the Industries (Development and Regula- tion) Act, 1951.

BE It enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

Short 1. (2) This Act may be called the Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1966,

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Govern-

and commence- ment.

ment may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

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Amend-

ment of

•ection IB,

2. Section 15 of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof and alter sub-section (1) as so re-numbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—

"(2) The report of every such investigation as is referred to in sub-section (2) shall, as soon as may be after it is submitted to the Government, be laid before both Houses of Parliament"

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Section 15 of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951, empowers the Central Government to cause investigations to be made into scheduled industries or industrial undertakings under certain circumstances. No provision is, however, made in the Act for making the results of such invest;gations public. Since the scheduled industries are vital for the economic development of the country, it is desirable that the reasons for such inquiries and th" results thereof should be made known to ihe public. This can be achieved by laying the reports of such inquiries before Parliament.

Hence the Bill.

ARJUN ARORA

II

BILL NO. XIX OF 1966

A Bill to prohibit bigamou? marriages in India.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the

Republic of India as follows: —

1. (/) This Act may be called the Prohibition of Bigamous

Marriages Act, 1966.

Short title, extent and commence, rnenl.

(2) It extends to the whole cf India except the Sta'e of Jammu " and Kashmir, and applies also to citizens of I idia domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who ar: outs.'de the sa'd terri- tories.

(3) It shall come into force on such date, as the Central Govern-

ment may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Punish- ment of bigamy.

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2. .Notwithstanding anytmng contair.cd m any other law or in any personal law, any marriage between two persons solemnized after the commencement of this Act is void if at the date of such marriage either party had a husband or wife, living; and the provi- sions of sections 494 and 495 of the Indian Penal Code shall apply- accordingly.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Polygamy is a social evil and should be ruthlessly suppressed. The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, has made bigamous marriages void and bigamy a punishable offence. But polygamy is practised by the people of several other communities in India. This discrimination should go and polygamy should be prohibited for all. The Bill seeks to achieve this object.

DWIJENDRALAL SEN GUPTA.

B. N. BANERJEE,

Secretary.

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