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Official sourceemergencies:- (1) Where a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, the President may by
order declare that the right to move any court for the enforcement of such of 2[the rights
conferred by Part III (except articles 20 and 21)] as may be mentioned in the order and all
proceedings pending in any court for the enforcement of the rights so mentioned shall
remain suspended for the period during which the Proclamation is in force or for such
shorter period as may be specified in the order.
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[(1A) While an order made under clause (1) mentioning any of the rights conferred by
Part III (except articles 20 and 21) is in operation, nothing in that Part conferring those rights
shall restrict the power of the State as defined in the said Part to make any law or to take any
executive action which the State would but for the provisions contained in that Part be
competent to make or to take, but any law so made shall, to the extent of the incompetency,
cease to have effect as soon as the order aforesaid ceases to operate, except as respects things
done or omitted to be done before the law so ceases to have effect:]
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[Provided that where a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation only in any part of
the territory of India, any such law may be made, or any such executive action may be taken,
under this article in relation to or in any State or Union territory in which or in any part of
which the Proclamation of Emergency is not in operation, if and in so far as the security of
India or any part of the territory thereof is threatened by activities in or in relation to the part
of the territory of India in which the Proclamation of Emergency is in operation.]
1. Inserted by the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978, s.39 (w.e.f.20.6.1979).
2. Substituted by ibid., s.40, for “the rights conferred by Part III” (w.e.f.20.6.1979).
3. Inserted by the Constitution (Thirty-eighth Amendment) Act, 1975, s.7 (retrospectively).
4. Inserted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s.53 (w.e.f.3.1.1977).
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4. Æ>gêÅ…Væü (¯@þËO¿ñý Æðÿ…yæþÐ@þ çÜÐ@þÆæÿ×ý) ^èþrtÐ@þ¬, 1976 Äñý¬MæüP 53Ð@þ òÜ„æü¯Œþ §éÓÆ> 3.1.1977 ¯@þ$…yìþ ^öí³µ…^èþºyìþ¯@þ¨.
230 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part XVIII. - Emergency Provisions)
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[(1B) Nothing in clause (1A) shall apply—
(a) to any law which does not contain a recital to the effect that such law is in
relation to the Proclamation of Emergency in operation when it is made; or
(b) to any executive action taken otherwise than under a law containing such a
recital.]
(2) An order made as aforesaid may extend to the whole or any part of the territory of
India:
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[Provided that where a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation only in a part of the
territory of India, any such order shall not extend to any other part of the territory of India
unless the President, being satisfied that the security of India or any part of the territory
thereof is threatened by activities in or in relation to the part of the territory of India in which
the Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, considers such extension to be necessary.]
(3) Every order made under clause (1) shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid
before each House of Parliament.
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359A. [Application of this Part to the State of Punjab.]:- Omitted by the Constitution
(Sixty-third Amendment) Act, 1989, s. 3 (w.e.f. 6-1-1990).
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