The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 2] NEW DELHI, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1983/PAUSA 12, 1904
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MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 2nd January, 1983/Pausa 12, 1904 (Saka)
THE DELHI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE. 1983
No. 2 OF 1983
Promulgated by the President in the Thirty-third Year of the Republic of India.
An Ordinance further to amend the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957.
WHEREAS Parliament is not in session and the President is satisfied 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 follow- ing Ordinance:—
2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PAKT II—S"c. I]Inser- tion of new sec- tion 5A.
Special provision as to delimita-
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- iDg section shall be inserted, namely:— "5A. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 or section 5, until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 2000 have been published, it shall not be necessary, (a) to alter the number of councillors and the number of council- lors to be reserved lor the members of the Scheduled Castes as deter- mined under section 3 on the basis of the population of Delhi aa ascertained at the 1971 census, or (b) to alter the number of wards, or the extent of any ward, as determined under section 5 on the basis of the population of Delhi as ascertained at the 1971 census, and for this purpose, the reference in sub-section (6) of section 3 to each census and the references to population ;n that sub-section and in sub- section (1) of section 5 shall be construed, respectively, as references to the 1971 census and to the population as ascertained at the 1971 census,". ZAIL SINGH, President. R. V. S. PERI SASTRI, Secy, to the Govt. of India. ↩