Act 028 of 2013 : Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2013

Preamble

Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 20131

[Act 28 of 2013][20th September, 2013]

[Repealed by Act 17 of 2015*]

An Act further to amend the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows-

1 Received the assent of the President on September 20, 2013 and published in the Gazette of India, Extra., Part II, Section 1, dated 23rd September, 2013, pp. 1-2, No. 38

* Ed.: Act 28 of 2013 repealed by Act 17 of 2015, S. 2 & Sch. I. See also S. 4 of the Repealing and Amending Act, 2015:

"4. Savings.- The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any Act in which such enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to;

and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing;

nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or appointment, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby repealed;

nor shall the repeal by this Act of any enactment provide or restore any jurisdiction, office, custom, liability, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure or other matter or thing not now existing or in force."

Section 1. Short title and commencement

1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2013.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of February, 2004.

Section 2. Amendment of Section 3

2. Amendment of Section 3.-In Section 3 of the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959 (10 of 1959), in clause (ba), for sub-clause (ii), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely-

"(ii) the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes constituted under clause (1) of Article 338 of the Constitution;

(ii-a) the National Commission for the Scheduled Tribes constituted under clause (1) of Article 338-A of the Constitution;".