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 2 (Received the assent of the Governor General on the 28th January, 1897.)

An Act to amend the Criminal Tribes' Act, 1871.

HEREAS it is expedirnt to amend the Criminal Tribes' Act, 1871; It is hereby enacted as follows:—

This Act may be called the Criminal Tribes Act Amendment Act, 1897; and

It shall come into force at once.

2. To section 1 of the Criminal Tribes' Act, XXVII 1871, the following proviso shall be added, namely:-

"Provided that any Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may, by notification in the local official Gazette, declare all or any of the provisions of this Act, as amended by subsequent legislation, to be in force in the whole or any part of the territories under its government.

3. After section 1 of the Criminal Tribes' Act, XXVI 1871, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—

"1A. In this Act the words 'tribe,' 'gang' and class shall be deemed to include any portion or members of a tribe, gang or class."

4. After section 17 of the said Act the following section shall be added, namely:—

"17A. (1) The Local Government may establish