Kerala Gazette No.33, dated 14th August 2007.

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PART I

GOVERNMENT OF KERALA

Law (Legislation-Publication) Department

NOTIFICATION

No. 13949/Leg. Pbn. 4/2007/Law. Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 23rd June 2007.

The following Act of Parliament published in the Gazette of India,

Extraordinary, Part II, Section I, dated the 21st December, 2006 is hereby

republished for general information. The Bill as passed by the Houses of

Parliament received the assent of the President on the 21st December, 2006.

By order of the Governor,

P. S. GOPINATHAN,

Law Secretary.

G. 680/2007/DTP.

THE UTTARANCHAL (ALTERATION OF NAME)

ACT, 2006

LOK SABHA ON 5TH DECEMBER, 2006

RAJYA SABHA ON 7TH DECEMBER, 2006)

ASSENTED TO

ON 21ST DECEMBER, 2006

ACT NO. 52 OF 2007

THE UTTARANCHAL (ALTERATION OF NAME) ACT, 2006

(ACT No. 52 OF 2006)

AN

ACT

to alter the name of the State of Uttaranchal

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of

India as follows:—

1.

Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the

Uttaranchal (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may,

by notification in the Official Gazette, appiont.

2.

Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a)

‘‘appointed day’’ means the date appointed under sub-section (2)

of section 1 for the coming into force of this Act;

(b)

‘‘appropriate Government’’ means as respects a law relating to a

matter enumerated in List I in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, the

Central Government, and as respects any other law, the State Government;

(c)

‘‘law’’ includes any enactment, Ordinance, regulation, order ,

bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having the force of law in

the whole of any part of the State of Uttaranchal.

3.

Alteration of name of the State of Uttaranchal.—As from the

appointed day, the State of Uttaranchal shall be known as the State of

Uttarakhand.

4.

Amendment of First Schedule to the Constitution.—In the First

Schedule to the Constitution, under the heading ‘‘I. The States’’, in entry 27,

under the column ‘‘Name’’, for the word ‘‘Uttaranchal

’’,

the

word

“Uttarakhand” shall be substituted.

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5.

Amendment of Fourth Schedule to the Constitution.—In the Fourth

Schedule to the Constitution, under the heading “TABLE”, in entry 18, in the

second column, for the word “Uttaranchal”, the word “Uttarakhand” shall be

substituted.

6.

Power to adapt laws.—(1)

For the purpose of giving effect to the

alteration of the name of the State of Uttaranchal by section 3, the appropriate

Government may, before the expiration of one year from the appointed day, by

order, make such adaptations and modifications of any law made before the

appointed day, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or

expedient, and thereupon every such law shall have effect subject to the

adaptations and modifications so made.

(2)

Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to prevent a competent

Legislature or other competent authority from repealing or amending any law

adapted or modified by the appropriate Government under the said sub-section.

7.

Power to construe laws.— Notwithstanding that no provision or

insufficient provision has been made under section 6 for the adaptation of a law

made before the appointed day, any court, tribunal or authority , required or

empowered to enforce such law, may construe the law in such manner, without

affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper in regard to the matter

before the court, tribunal or authority.

8.

Legal Proceedings.—Where immediately before the appointed day any

legal proceedings are pending to which the State of Uttaranchal is a party, the

State of Uttarakhand shall be deemed to be substituted for the State of

Uttaranchal in those proceedings.

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