Act Number: 108

Act Name: The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1976

Year: 1976

Enactment Date: 1976-09-18

Long Title: An Act to provide for the inclusion in, and the exclusion from, the lists of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, of certain castes and tribes, for the re-adjustment of representation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies in so far as such re-adjustment is necessitated by such inclusion or exclusion and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 9: Certain other powers of Election Commission.
    (1) The Commission may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India and in the Official Gazette of the State concerned—
         (a) correct any printing mistake in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 as amended under this Act, or any error occurring therein from any inadvertent slip or omission; and
         (b) where the boundaries or the name of any district or any territorial division mentioned in the said Order are or is altered, make such amendments as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for bringing the Order up-to-date.
     (2) Every notification under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued, before the House of the People and the Legislative Assembly of the State concerned.
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