Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act : Publication of amendments and their

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act,1976

Act No : 108

Section : Publication of amendments and their dates of operation.

8. Publication of amendments and their dates of operation. (1) The Commission shall cause the amendments made by It In the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 to be published in the Gazette of India and in the Official Gazettes of the States concerned. (2) Upon publication in the Gazette of India, every such amendment shall have the force of law and shall not be called in question in any court. (3) As soon as may be after such publication in the Gazette of India. every such amendment it, shall be laid before the House of the People and the Legislative Assemblies of the States concerned. (4) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), the readjustment of representation of any territorial constituencies in the House of the People or in the Legislative Assembly of a State necessitated by any amendments made by the Commission in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 and provided for in that Order as so amended shall apply in relation to every election to the House or, as the case may be, to the Assembly, hereafter the publication in the Gazette of India under sub- section (1) of such amendments and shall so apply in supersession of the provisions relating to representation Contained in the Representation of the People Act,, 1950. (43 of 1950.) 852 (5) Nothing contained in the foregoing sub-sections shall affect the representation in the House of the People or in the Legislative Assembly of a State, existing on the date of publication in the Gazette of India under sub-section (1) of the amendments made by the Commission under this Act.