Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1976
No: 108 Dated: Sep, 18 1976
THE SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES ORDERS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1976
ACT NO. 108 OF 1976
An Act to provide for the inclusion in, and the exclusion from, the lists of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, of certain castes and tribes, for the re-adjustment of representation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies in so far as such re-adjustment is necessitated by such inclusion of exclusion and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title and Commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1976.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “census authority” means the Registrar General and ex officio Census Commissioner for India;
(b) “Commission” means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324 of the Constitution;
(c) “Delimitation Act” means the Delimitation Act, 1972 (76 of 1972); (d) “last census” means the census held in India in 1971;
(e) “Scheduled Castes Order” means the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, made by the President under article 341 of the Constitution;
(f) “Scheduled Tribes Orders” means the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 and the Constitution (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Scheduled Tribes Order, 1959, made by the President under article 342 of the Constitution;
(g) “State” means a State included in the Scheduled Castes Order and the Scheduled Tribes Orders, and includes the Union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.