REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 2

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No.

10] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MARCH 9,N 1981/PHALGUNA 18, 1902

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

as a separate compilation

"RAJYA SABHA

The following Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 9th

March, 1981:—

BILL NO. VI OF 1981

A Bill further to amend the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-second Year of the Republic

of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras (Amend-

ment) Act, 1981.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 21st day of

January, 1981.

2. In the "Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to

as the principal -Act), sub-section (3) of section 16 shall be omitted.

3. (1) The Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras (Amendment) Ordinance, 1981, is

hereby repealed.

(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.

82 of

1971.

2 of

1981.

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title

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mence-

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Amend-

ment of

section

16.

Repeal

and

saving.

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[PAST II—SEC. 2]

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Sub-section (3) of section 16 of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971,

lays down that no person shall be eligible for election as President or

other office bearer of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee

unless he is at least a matriculate or has passed Higher Secondary Exa-

mination of any recognised University or Board or is a Giani or possesses

any other equivalent educational qualification.

2. Following representations that imposing a minimum educational

qualification in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971, was against the

cardinal principles of democracy and as such a qualification is not re-

quired even under the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, .1925, of Punjab, it wag pro-

posed to amend the Act for omitting sub-section (3) of section 16 there-

of. Accordingly, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras (Amendment)

Ordinance,

1981, was promulgated on the 21st January, 1981.

3. The Bill seeks to replace the said Ordinance.

ZAIL SINGH.

NEW DELHI;

The 4th March, 1981.

S. S. BHALERAO,

Secretary-General.

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