The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 17] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1967/VAISKHA 15, 1889
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MINISTRY OF LAW (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 5th May, 1967/Vaisakha 15, 1889 (Saka)
THE ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1967
No. 3 OF 1967
Promulgated by the President in the Eighteenth Year of the Republic of India. An Ordinance further to amend the anti-corruption laws.
WHEREAS Parliament is not in session and the President is satis- fied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action;
Now, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 123 of the Constitution, the President is pleased to promulgate the following Ordinance:—
I I8 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SBC. 1] 2. (2) Notwithstanding—(a) the substitution of new provisions for sub-section (3) of
2 of 1947.
Amendment of anti-cor- ruption law in relation to certain pending trials.
40 of 19J4 section 5 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 (hereinafter : referred to as the 1947-Act) by section 6(2)(e) of the Anti- Corruption Laws (Amendment) Act, 1964 (hereinafter referred ' to as the 1964-Act); and
(0) any judgment or order of any court,
the said sub-section (3) as it stood immediately before the commence- ment of the 1964-Act, shall apply and shall be deemed always to have applied to and in relation to trials of offences punishable under sub-section (2) of section 5 of the 1947-Act pending before any court immediately befoie such commencement as if no such new provisions had been substituted for the said sub-section (3).
(2) The accused person in any trial to and in relation to which sub-section (7) applies may at the earliest opportunity available to him after the comnvjneement of this Ordinance, demand that the trial of the offence s7i M' 1 p re i ^ n the ita a at which it was immediately betore the commencement of the 1964-Act and on any such demand being made the court shall proceed with the trial from that stage,
(3) For the removal of doubt it is hereby provided that any court—
(1) before which an appeal or application for revision against any judgment, order or sentence passed or made In any trial to which sub-section (1) applies is pending immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, or
(it) before "tfrhich an appeal or application for revision against any judgment, order or sentence passed or made before the commencement of this Ordinance in any such trial, is filed after such commencement,
shall remand the case for trial in conformity with the provisions of this section.
S. RADHAKRISHNAN,
President.
S. P. SEN-VARMA,