The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 9] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1983/CHAITRA 10, 1905
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MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 31st March, 1988/Chaitra 10, 1905 (Saha)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on
the 31st March, 1983, and is hereby published for general information: —
THE DELHI ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 198; No. 9 OF 1983
[31st March, 1983.]
An Act to amend the Delhi Administration Act, 1966.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Republic of
India as follows:—
1.(1) This Act may be called the Delhi Administration (Amendment)
Act, 1983.
Short title and commen- cement.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 2nd day of January,
1983.
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:—
2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART I I - ^ E C. I]Provided that the reference in this sub-section to the last preceding 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.'.
3. In section 4 of the principal Act, after sub-section (5), the following sub- section shall be inserted, namely:—
Amend- ment of section 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 beeti published, it shall not be necessary to readjust the division of Delhi into constituencies under this section.".
4. (1) The Delhi Administration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1983, is hereby i of 1983. repealed.
Repeal and saving.
(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.
R. V. S. PERI SASTRI,