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[18th December, 1981.]

an International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Thirtieth day of November, 1973;

India, having acceded to the said Convention, should make provisions for giving effect to it;

it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Anti-Apartheid (United Nations Convention) Act, 1981.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

2. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law, such of the provisions of the International Convention on International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid as are set out in the Schedule shall have the force of law in India.

(2) The Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Schedule in conformity with any amendments, duly made and adopted of the provisions of the said Convention set out therein.

(3) Every notification issued under sub-section (2) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued, before each House of Parliament.

3. Every person to whom international criminal responsibility applies under article III of the said Convention, as set out in the Schedule, shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the reference in clause (a) of article III of the said Convention to "article II" shall be construed as a reference to the provisions of article II of that Convention as set out in the Schedule.