The Assam Official Language (Amendment) Act,1964

ASSAM ACT X X II OF 1964 THE ASSAM OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1964 (Received the assent o f the Governor on the 17th November, 1964) [Published in the Assam Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 20th November, 1964]. An Act further to am end the Assam Official Language Act, I960 Preamble. Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Act Assam Official Language Act, 1960, hereinafter called o f the principal Act, for the purposes and in the manner 1 hereinafter appearing ; I t is hereby enacted in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows;— Short title, l . ( D This Act may be called the Assam Official extent and Language (Amendment) Act, 1964. commence- ° ' (2) It extends to the whole of Assam. (3) It shall come into force at once. Amendment 2. In the proviso to sub-section (3) of Section 1 of Section 1 o f t jje principal Act, for the word “ five” occurring Act XXXHI^c t w e e n the ' words “ than” and “years” the word of 1960. “ ten” shall be substituted. Amendment 3. In Section 3 of the principal Act, in the first of Section 3 proviso, for the words and figures “ under Article 343 ActXXXIlI0 ̂ lhe Constitution of India” the words “for the of 1960. official purposes of the Union under any law made by the Parliament in this behalf” shall be substituted. Amendment 4. In Section 6 of the principal Act, for the words of Section 6 a n j figures “ under clause (2) of Article 343 of the Act x x x n i G o n s t i t u t i o n l n dia ” the words “for the official of i960. purposes of the Union under any law made by the Parliament in this behalf” shall be substituted. Amendment 5 . j n c 1a u s e (d) of the proviso to Section 7 of of C Assam t 'l e principal Act, lor the words and figures “under Act XXXIIlArticle 343 of the Constitution of India” the words of 1960. “ for the official purposes of the Union under any law made by the Parliament in this behalf” shall be substituted. Price 00'6 P. or Id. Amendment 6. Existing Section 8 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) and the following shall Act N o. be inserted as sub-section (2), namely:— X X X III of 1960. “ (2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before the Assam Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions immediately following, the Assam Legislative Assembly agree in making any modification in the rule or the Assam Legislative Assembly agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall there­ after have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be ; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.” AGP (Leg) 7/65—10004-124-25—-3-12-65