Section 5
Savings.
The Scheduled Areas (Assimilation of Laws) Act, 1951
About this Act
An Act to assimilate certain laws in force in the scheduled areas to the laws in force in the districts of Darrang and Lakhimpur of the State of Assam.
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3, all suits, cases and other legal
proceedings between the parties all of whom belong to the Scheduled Tribes specified in Item 2 of
Part I—Assam, of the Schedule to the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, or such other
tribe or tribes, as may be specified in this behalf, shall be tried and continue to be tried under the
Assam Frontier (Administration of Justice) Regulation, 1945 (Regulation 1 of 1945) as if this Act had
not been passed.