INDIA LAW LOOK: March 2024

Friday, March 15, 2024

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THE CONSTITUTION (SIXTH AMENDMENT) ACT, T946

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SIXTH AMENDMENT

[11th September 1956.]

An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

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THE CONSTITUTION (FIFTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1955

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FIFTH AMENDMENT

An Act further to amend the Constitution of India [24th December 1955.].

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THE CONSTITUTION (FOURTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1955

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FOURTH AMENDMENT

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to THE CONSTITUTION (Fourth Amendment) Bill, 1954 which was enacted as the Constitution (Fourth Amendment) Act, 1954

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THE CONSTITUTION (THIRD AMENDMENT) ACT, 1954

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SECOND AMENDMENT

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to THE CONSTITUTION (Second Amendment) Bill, 1952 which was enacted as the Constitution (Second Amendment) Act, 1952

THE CONSTITUTION (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT,1952

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SECOND AMENDMENT

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to THE CONSTITUTION (Second Amendment) Bill, 1952 which was enacted as the Constitution (Second Amendment) Act, 1952

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THE CONSTITUTION (FIRST AMENDMENT) ACT, 1951

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FIRST AMENDMENT 1

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Constitution (First Amendment) Bill, 1951 which was enacted as the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

During the last fifteen months of the working of the Constitution, certain difficulties have been brought to light by judicial decisions and pronouncements, especially regarding the chapter on fundamental rights. The citizen's right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by article 19(1)(a) has been held by some courts to be so comprehensive as not to render a person culpable even if he advocates murder and other crimes of violence. In other countries with written constitutions, freedom of speech and of the press is not regarded as debarring the State from punishing or preventing abuse of this freedom. The citizen's right to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade, or business

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TWELFTH SCHEDULE

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1. Urban planning including town planning.

2. Regulation of land use and construction of buildings

3. Planning for economic and social development

ELEVENTH SCHEDULE

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1. Agriculture, including agricultural extension

2. Land improvement, implementation of land reforms, land consolidation, and soil conservation.

3. Minor irrigation, water management, and watershed development.

4. Animal husbandry, dairying, and poultry.

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TENTH SCHEDULE

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INTERPRETATION

In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) "House" means either House of Parliament or the Legislative Assembly or, as the case may be, either House of the Legislature of a State;

(b) "legislature party", in relation to a member of a House belonging to any political party in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 or 1*** paragraph 4, means the group consisting of all the members of that House for the time being belonging to that political party in accordance with the said provisions;

(c) "Original political party", in relation to a member of a House, means the political party to which he belongs for the purposes of subparagraph (1) of paragraph 2;

(d) "paragraph" means a paragraph of this Schedule.

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THE CONSTITUTION (FIFTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1987

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FIFTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Constitution(Fifty-seventh Amendment) Bill, 1987 which was enacted asTHE CONSTITUTION (Fifty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1987