Scheduled Areas (Assimilation of Laws) Act,1953
Act No : 16
Section : SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
SCHEDULED AREAS (ASSIMILATION OF LAWS) ACT, 1953
16 of 1953
6th May, 1953
"Certain areas of the Mikir Hills, which is an autonomous district in Assam specified in Part A of the Table appended o paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, have been excluder from that district and incorporated in the adjoining plain districts of Nowgong and Sibsagar. But under article 372(1) of the Constitution, all the Acts, Rules, regulations, etc., which applied to these areas proprio vigore or were specifically applied thereto before the commencement if the Constitution with modifications under the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874. or undersection 92 of the Government of India Act, 1935, are in force and will continue to be in force in these areas until altered or repealed. In order to administer these areas under the normal laws in force in the rest of the State of Assam, it is necessary for the appropriate Legislature a pass legislation repealing the laws now in force in these areas and applying to them all such laws as are in force in the respective districts in which they have been incorporated. The Government of Assam have already drawn up a Bill to extend to those areas the laws pertaining to matters in the State List in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution.
The object of this Bill is to make provision for the extension lo these areas of the laws pertaining to the Union and Concurrent Lists."-Gaz. of Ind., 28-3-1953, Extra., Pt. II, section 2, p. 179. An Act to assimilate certain laws in force in the Scheduled areas to the laws in force in the districts of Nowgong and Sibsagar in the State of Assam. BE it enacted by Parliament as follows
SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
(1) This Act may be called The Scheduled Areas Assimilation of Laws) Act, 1953.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint.
