Act Number: 37

Act Name: The Scheduled Areas (Assimilation of Laws) Act, 1951

Year: 1951

Enactment Date: 1951-06-23

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 5: Savings.
    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.
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