4.Amendment of Section 2

Section 2 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) of that section and, — (i) in sub-section (1) so renumbered, after the figures and brackets "in sub-section (3) of section 1," the figures and brackets "but subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) " shall be inserted. (ii) after sub-section (1) as so renumbered, the following shall be added as sub-section (2), namely: — " (2) A draft of any notification proposed to be issued under sub-section (1) of this section or under section 4 or section 6 shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly and the notification shall not be issued unless the Assembly approves the draft either with or without modification or addition; and upon such approval being given the notification may be issued in the form in which it has been approved, and such notification shall be published in the Gazette, and shall thereupon have effect as from the date as is specified in the notification". For the first paragraph of the Preamble to the Travancore-Cochin Prohibition Act, 1950 (Act XIII of 1950), (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following shall be substituted , namely: — “Whereas it is necessary to unify and amend the law relating to prohibition in the state of Kerala”;