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Registered No. D. 221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 5] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, MARCH 33, 1968/CHAITRA 3, 1890

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

as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF LAW (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 23rd March, 1968/Chaitra 3, 1890 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the Pre- sident on the 23rd March, 1968, and is hereby published for general information: —

THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (SUPPLEMENTARY) ACT, 1968

No. 3 OF 1968

[23rd March, 1968]

An Act to supplement the Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows —

1. (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Represen- tation of the People (Supplementary) Act, 1968.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th day of Short title and com- mence- ment February, 1968 (11) 12 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY [FART II SEC—1]

2. The provisions of sections 116'A, 116B and 116C of tho Repre-

43 of 1951.

sentation of the People Act, 1951, shall, so far as may be, apply to every order made by the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir subject to the following modifications, namely: —

(a) references therein to the High Court shall be construed as including references to the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir,

(b) references therein to the State Legislature or to the Speaker or Chairman thereof, shall be construed as including references to the Legislature of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and to the Speaker or Chairman thereof, and

43 of 1951.

Applica- tion of sections 118A, I16B and H6C of the Re- presenta- tion of the People Act, 1951, to orders made by the Jammu and Kash- mir High Court.

(c) references therein to the provisions of the Representa- tion of the People Act, 1951, shall, in relation to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, be construed as references to the corres- ponding provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957.

Jammu and Kash- mir Act No. IV of 1957-

3. (1) The Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People

(Supplementary) Ordinance, 1968, is hereby repealed.

2 of 1968.

Repeal and saving.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act.

V. N. BHATIA,

Secy, to the Govt. of India

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