Act Number: 51

Act Name: The Defence of India Act, 1962

Year: 1962

Enactment Date: 1962-12-12

Long Title: An Act to provide for special measures to ensure the public safety and interest, the defence of India and civil defence and for the trial of certain offences and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 45: Savings as to orders.
    (1) No order made in exercise of any power conferred by or under this Act shall be called in question in any court.
     (2) Where an order purports to have been made and signed by any authority in exercise of any power conferred by or under this Act, a court shall, within the meaning of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), presume that such order was so made by that authority.
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