Shillong (Rifle Range and Umlong) Cantonments Assimilation of Laws Act,1954
Act No : 31
Section : SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
SHILLONG (RIFLE RANGE AND UMLONG) CANTONMENTS ASSIMILATION OF LAWS ACT, 1954
31 of 1954
28th May, 1954
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "By virtue of sub-para. (2) of para. 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, the United Khasi-Jaintia Hills District was constituted. This district comprises the territories which before the commencement of the Constitution, were known as the Khasi States and the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District, excluding any areas for the time being comprised within the cantonment and Municipality of Shillong, but including so much of the area comprised within the Municipality of Shillong as formed part of the Khasi State of Mylliem.
2. Prior to the commencement of the Constitution, the Shillong Rifle Range and Umlong Cantonments formed pan of the Khasi State of Mylliem and were not a part of the Municipality of Shillong. Thus, the area covered by these two cantonments in the former Mylliem State remained as an isolated non-tribal area of the State of Assam, not forming part ol any administrative district. These areas have now been included in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District but the old laws in force in the area continue to be in force. The Government of Assam have made a law repealing the laws in force in the said areas and extending thereto the laws in force in the District of Khasi and Jaintia Hills and pertaining to matters in the State List in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. This Bill seeks to extend to the areas the laws pertaining to matters in the Union and Concurrent Lists." - Gaz. of Ind. 10-3-1954, Extra., Part II-S. 2, p. 109. An Act to assimilate certain laws in force in the scheduled areas to the laws in force in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
(1) This Act may be called The Shillong2(Rifle Range and Umlong)3Cantonments Assimilation of Laws Act, 1954.
(2) It shall come into force on such date4as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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