Preamble

The Tamil Nadu Transferred Territory) Re-Enacting Act, 1957

Act 18 of 1957

Keyword(s): Transferred Territory, Proclamation, Travancore, Cochin

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'['J'AMJL NAUUj ACT No. XVili OF 1957.8

(Received the assent of the Governor on the 6th December 1957 ; Jirstpublished in tlze For.t St. Creorge Gazette on the 9th December 1957.)

[An Act to reaact certain enactmeats iu their npplicntion to the trsnsfemd territory in the 3[Statc of Tamil Nada.f

WHEREASthe lJccsS3ent of India, by a Proclamation'

made wdor h:lticlc 356 of tllc Cortstitulioa on the 23rd March 1956, declared ttzat thc powers of the Legislature of the State of Tsavaacorie-Cczchilr shall be exercisable by or utidez the: authority of Parliarne~t;

AND WHEREAS those powers have been conferred 011 the President by the Travancore-Cochin State Legislature (Delegation of Powers) Act, 1956 (Central Act 29 of 1956);

AND W H ~ A Sin. pursualzcc , or thosc powers certain ' laws have been enacted by thc President ;

A ~ WHEREASD the Proclai~xitiouhad ceased to operate in the transferred territory on the 1st day of November

1956 ;

ANDWHEKEA~C ~ R U S C(2) of Arli~Ic357 of tllc Constitution provides that the Iaws.so at~actcdshall ccasc to have effect on the c:xpiration of a period of ono yoar aftm tho Proclqmation hss ceased to operate except as respects things done or omitted to be done before the expiration of the said period unless sooner rcpcaled cr re-enacted

by--Act of----- the appropriate Legislature----l__n- ; -- -_1--

lThese words wcre substitutedfor the word "Madras" by the . .

Tamil Nadu Adapta?ioaof Laws Order, 1969, as amended by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws (Sccond Anlcndment) Order, 1969.

2F0r Statc~ncntof Objccls and Rcasons, scc fijrt S;. George Gazette, Part IV-A Extraordinary, dated thc l Glh October 1957, page 55.

"11is expression was suhstitutcd S ~ ) I - thc cupi*cssiorz"State oC Madras" by the Tan4 Nildu Adaptation of Laws Orcter, 1969, as amended by the Tamil Nadu Adnptntio:~of Iiivls (Sccand Awe dwent) Ordcr, 19G9.

199 :T.N. Act XVUL ] * TurtlU Nddu (Trmtsferred 693

I Territory)Jte-enacting

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to re-enact permanently some of the laws in their .application to the transfe~red

territory ;

2.

BE it onacted in the Eighth Year of the Republic tC India as follows :-