Act Number: 32

Act Name: The Punjab Disturbed Areas Act, 1983

Year: 1983

Enactment Date: 1983-12-08

Long Title: An Act to make better provision for the suppression of disorder and for the restoration and maintenance of public order in disturbed areas in Punjab.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 6: Protection of persons acting under sections 4 and 5.
    No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the1 [Central Government] against any person in respect of anything done or purporting to be done in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4 and 5.
Notes:
1 Subs. by President Act 2 of 1989, s. 2, for "State Government" (w.e.f. 3-4-1989).
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