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 REGISTERED No. D-28

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

NEW DELHI. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1949

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF LAW

New Delhi, the 4th June 1949

The following Act of the Constituent Assembly has been authenticated by the President of the Constituent Assembly by his signature on the 31st May, 1919, and is hereby published for general information:—

CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ACT NO. III OF 1949

An Act to amend the India (Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the India (Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946, 9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 39. for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

It is hereby enacted as follows:—

Short title and commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the India (Central Government and Legislature) Amendment Act, 1949.

(2) It shall come into force, on the 10th day of June, 1949.

Interpretation.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, 52 & 53 Vict c. 63 applies for the interpretation of this Act as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Amendment of section 2 of the India (Central Governments and Legislative) Act, 1946.

3. In paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the India (Central Government and Legislature) Act, 1946,

(a) after the words "woollen textiles", the words and brackets "raw cotton (including ginned cotton and unginned cotton or kapas) and cotton seed" shall be inserted;

(b) after the word "coal", the brackets and words "(including coke and other derivatives of coal)" shall be inserted, and shall be deemed always to have been inserted. (957)