REGISTERED No. D. 221
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 7] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1968/CHAITRA 5, 1890
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MINISTRY OF LAW
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 25th March, 1968/Chaitra 5, 1890 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the Pre- sident on the 25th March, 1968, and is hereby published for general information: —
THE WEST BENGAL STATE LEGISLATURE (DELEGATION OF POWERS) ACT, 1968
No. 6 OF 1968
[25th March, 1968] An Act to confer on the President the power of the Legislature of the State of West Bengal to make laws.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
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by the President and published wrth the notification of the Govern- ment jl India VA the Ministry oi' Home Affairs No. G.S.R. 322 of the said date.
3. (2) The power of the Legislature of the State of West Bengal to make laws, which has been declared by the Proclamation to be exercisable by or under tlu authority of Parliament, is hereby con- ferred on the President.
Confer- ment on the presi- dent of the power Of tha State dsglsla- tiire to nanke laws.
(2) In the exercise of the said power, l,he President may, from 'time to time, whether Parliament la or is not in session, enact aa a P r e s i d e nt Act a BiJl containing such piovisions as he considers necessary:
ProvUed Tul before enacting any sucli Act, the President shall,
v/a^never ho considers it practicable to do £>o, consult a committee constituted for the purpose, consisting of forty members of the House of the People nominated by thf; Rp/aker and twenty members of Ihe Council of States nommatt d by t'-ir> Chairman.
(3) Evory Act enacted by the Prf-r.idcnl under sub-section (2) shuU, a.i sjon as may be t\Uc- cnfclrnMit, 1;;; ]vid before each House of Parliament.
(4) Either Hcuse of PaUiamenl M'iy, h-j resolution pa^Jtd witliin thirty days fro.n the date on wh;ch the Act has been laid before it under subnotion (3), which perjod inay be comprised in one session <><• in two sjuceerwive sessions, direct any modifications to be raadp in the Act and if the modifications are agreed to by the other House of Parliament during the session in which the Act has been so laid before it or tUe session succeeding, such modifications shall be given effect to by the President by enacting an amending Act under sub- section (2):
Provided that nothing m this sub-section fah.nl affect the validHy of tbe Act nr of cny action taken thereunder before it is -r. amended
V. N. BHATIA,