The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 1] 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 ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1983
No. 1 OF 1983
Promulgated by the President in the Thirty-third Year of the Republic of India.
An Ordinance to amend the Delhi Administration Act, 1966.
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:—
1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Delhi Administration (Amendment)
Ordinance, 1983.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
Short title and com- mence- ment.
19 of 1966.
Amend- ment of section 3.
2. In the Delhi Administration Act, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 3, for sub-section ( 5 ), the (following sub-section shall be substituted, namely: —
a THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—Sue. 1]census of which the relevant figures have been published shall, until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 2000 have been published, be construed as a reference to the 1971 census,".
^u^ d 3- In section 4 of the principal Act, after sub-section (5), the following sub- mentof section shall be inserted, namely;—
s e c t l o n 4- "(6) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 2000 have been published, it shall not be necessary to readjust the division of Delhi into constituencies under this section.".
ZAIL SINGH,
President.
R. V. S. PERI SASTRI,