Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1956

[Act No. 63 of 1956]

[25th September, 1956]

Preamble

Statements of Objects and Reasons

An Act to provide for the inclusion in, and the exclusion from the lists of Scheduled Cstes and Scheduled Tribes, of certain castes and tribes and matters connected therewith.

Be it enacted by parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Section 1 - Short Title

This Act may be called the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1956.

Section 2 - Definitions

In this Act,-

(a) "article" means an article of the Constitution;

(b) "census authority" means the Deputy Registrar General, India;

(c) "last Census" means the census held in 1951;

(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

Section 3 - Amendment of Scheduled Castes Orders

(1) The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, is hereby amended in the manner and to the extent specified in Schedule I.

(2) The Constitution (Schedule Castes) (Part C States) Order, 1951, is hereby amended in the manner and to the extent specified in Scheduled-II.

Section 4 - Amendment of Scheduled Tribes Orders

(1) The Scheduled to the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, is hereby amended in the manner and to the extent specified in Schedule-III.

(2) The Schedule to the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) (Part C States) Order, 1951, is hereby amended in the manner and to the extent specified in Schedule-IV.

Section 5 - Determination of population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

(1) Where the list of Scheduled Castes or (Scheduled Tribes) in relation to any State varies by this Act, the population as at the last census of the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, of the Scheduled Tribes in that State (including in relation to Assam, the population of the Scheduled Tribes in that State excluding the tribal areas, the population in each autonomous district thereof) shall be ascertained or estimated by the census authority in such manner as may be prescribed and shall be notified by that authority in the Gazette of India;

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any State in relation to which provision for redetermining the population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is made in Section 42 of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956 or in Section 15 of the Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956.

(2) The population figures so notified shall be taken to be the relevant population figures as...

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