Section 3:
Power of Central Government to impose reciprocal disabilities on persons domiciled in British Possessions.
1[3. Power of Central Government to impose reciprocal disabilities on persons domiciled in
British Possessions.--Where by the law or practice of any British Possession persons of Indian origin are
subject in that British Possession to disabilities in respect of entry into, or travel, residence, the
acquisition, holding or disposal of property, the enjoyment of educational facilities, the holding of public
office, the carrying on of any occupation, trade, business or profession, or the exercise of the franchise in,
that British Possession, to which in respect of the like matters in 2[India] persons domiciled in that British
British Possession are not subject in 2[India], the Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, direct that the same disabilities or disabilities as similar thereto as may be shall, notwithstanding
anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, be imposed in 2[India] on persons not
being of Indian origin who- are domiciled in that British Possession.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 22 of 1943, s. 4, for the original s. 3.
2. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch. for "the States".