The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 7] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, FEB 28, 1967/PHALGUNA 9, 1888 (Saka)
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MINISTRY OF LAW
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 28th February, 1967/Phalguna 9, 1888 (Saka)
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMEND- MENT) ORDINANCE, 1967
NO. 2 OF T967
Promulgated by the President in the Eighteenth Year of the
Republic of India.
An Ordinance further to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
WHEREAS Parliament is not in session and the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action;
60 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [FAHT II—SEC. 1]promulgate the following Ordinance: —
1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Representation of the Short title and People (Amendment) Ordinance, 1967.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
com- mence ment.
2. In section 73 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951-
Amend- ment of section T3 of Act 43 of 1051
(a) for the words, brackets, letter and figures "the date originally fixed for the completion of the election under clause (c) of section 30, the names of the members elected for the various constituencies by that date", the following shall be substituted, namely: —
"the results of the elections in all the constituencies [other than those in which the poll could not be taken for any reason on the date originally fixed under clause (d) of section 30 or for which the time for completion of the election has been extended under the provisions of section 153] have been declared by the returning officer under the provisions of section 53 or, as the case may be, section 66, the names of the members elected for those constituencies";
(b) for clause (a) of the proviso, the following clause shall be substituted, namely: —
" (a) to preclude—
(I) the taking of the poll and the completion of tht election in any Parliamentary or Assembly constituency or constituencies in which the poll could not be taken for any reason on the date originally fixed under clause (d) of section 30; or
(it) the completion of the election in any Parlia- mentary or Assembly constituency or constituencies for which time has been extended under the provisions of section 153; or".
S. RADHAKRISHNAN.
President
S, P. SEN-VARMA,
Seci/. to tlie Govf. nf lndPIUNTKD til INDIA IIY THE GENERAL MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, IM1NTO ROAD, NEW M t . HI AND PUBLISHED BY Till'. MANAOF.R OF PUBLICATION'S, urxm. 19()^.