Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Foreigners Law (Application and Amendment) Act, 1962

Year: 1962

Enactment Date: 1962-11-24

Long Title: An Act to apply the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939 and the Foreigners Act, 1946 to certain persons to whom they do not at present apply and further to amend the Foreigners Act, 1946.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 2: Application of Act 16 of 1939 and Act 31 of 1946 to certain persons.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the provisions of the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939, and the Foreigners Act, 1946, and of the rules and orders made thereunder shall apply to and in relation to any person who, or either of whose parents, or any of whose grand-parents was at any time a citizen or subject of any country at war with, or committing external aggression against, India or of any other country assisting the country at war with, or committing such aggression against, India, as they apply to and in relation to foreigners as defined for the purposes of those Acts.
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