Section 5
Determination of population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1956
About this Act
An Act to provide for the inclusion in, and the exclusion from, the lists of Scheduled Castes and of Scheduled Tribes, of certain castes and tribes and matters connected therewith.
(1) Where the list of
Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes in relation to any State is varied 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, and 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 States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956 ), or in section 15 of the Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956 (40 of 1956 ).
(2) The population figures so notified shall be taken to be the relevant population figures as ascertained at the last census and shall supersede any figures previously published.
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 States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956 ), or in section 15 of the Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956 (40 of 1956 ).
(2) The population figures so notified shall be taken to be the relevant population figures as ascertained at the last census and shall supersede any figures previously published.