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असाधारण EXTRAORDINARY भाग II — खण्ड 1 PART II — Section 1 प्राधिकार से प्रकाशित PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 11th March, 2004/Phalguna 20, 1936 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 10th March, 2015, and is hereby published for general information:—

[10th March, 2015.]

it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2015.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 6th day of January, 2015.

2. In the Citizenship Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 2, in sub-section (1), for clause (ee), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
 * ‘(ee) “Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder” means a person registered as an Overseas Citizen of India Cardholder by the Central Government under section 7A;’.

3. In the principal Act, in section 5,—
 * (i) in sub-section (1),—
 * (a) in clause (f), for the words “has been residing in India for one year”, the words “is ordinarily resident in India for twelve months” shall be substituted;