Act Number: 63

Act Name: The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-09-25

Long Title: An Act to provide for the inclusion in, and the exclusion from, the lists of Scheduled Castes and of Scheduled Tribes, of certain castes and tribes and matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Department: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

Section 2: Definitions.
    In this Act,--
        (a) "article" means an article of the Constitution;
        (b) "census authority" means the Deputy Registrar General, India;
        (c) "last census" means the census held in 1951 ;
        (d) "prescribed means" prescribed by rules made under this Act.
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