The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 62] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 33, 1966/PAUSA 2, 1888
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MINISTRY OF LAW
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 23rd December, 1966/Pausa 2, 1888 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 22nd December, 1966, and is hereby published for general Information: —
THE CONSTITUTION (TWENTIETH AMENDMENT)
ACT, 1966
[22nd December, 1966]
An Act further to amend the Constitution of India,
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the
Republic of India as follows:—
666 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 112. After article 233 of the Constitution, the following article shall be inserted, namely: —
Insertion of new article 233A.
"233A. Notwithstanding any judgment, decree or order of any court,—•
(a) (i) no appointment of any person already in the judicial service of a State or of any person who has been for not less than seven years an advocate or a pleader, to be a district judge in that State, and
(ii) no posting, promotion or transfer of any such person as a district judge,
Validation of appoint- ments of, and judgments, etc., delivered by, certain district iudces.
made a1 ary time before the commrncsment of the Constitution (T\vpntkth Amendment) Act, 1966, otherwise than in accord- s' 'ee vV :h the provisions of article 233 or article 235 shall be deemed to be illegal or void or ever to have become illegal or void by reason only of the fact that such appointment, poting, promotion or transfer was not made in accordance with the said provisions;
(b) no jurisdiction exercised, no judgment, decree, sentence or order passed or made, and no other act or proceeding done or taken, before the commencement of the Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 1966 by, or before, any person appointed, posted, promoted or transferred as a district judge in any State otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of article 233 or article 235 shall be deemed to bo illegal or invalid or ever to have become illegal or invalid by reason only of the fact that such appointment, posting, promotion or transfer was not made in accordance with the saJd provisions.".
S. P. SEN-VAHMA,
Secy, to the Govt. of India.
ERRATA
In the Companies (Second Amendment) Act, 1966 (No. 37 of 1966) as published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, dated the 5th December, 1966, at page 549,—
(1) in the notification, for "5th December, 1966", read "4th December, 1966";
(ii) for "[5th December, 1966]", read "[4th December,