The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 12] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1967/CHAITRA 21, 1889
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MINISTRY OF LAW
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 11th, April, 1967/Chaitra 21, 1889 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the Pre- sident on the 11th April, 1967, and is hereby published for general information: —
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1967 No. 10 OF 1967
[11th April, 1967]
An Act further to amend the Representation of the People
Act, 1951. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eighteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
1. This Act may be called the Representation of the People Short title.
(Amendment) Act, 1967.
43 of 1951.
2. In section 73 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—
Amend- ment of section 73.
ioz THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 1]clause (e) 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 elec- tio'n has been extended under the provisions of section 153] have been declared by the returning officer under the provi- sions 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 the 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
(ii) 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".
3. (i) The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance,
2 of 1967. 1967, is hereby repealed.
Repeal and saving.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act as amended by the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act as amended by this Act as if this Act had come into force on tihe 28th day of February, 1967.
S. P. SEN-VARMA, Secy, to the Govt. of India.