every such person shall for the purposes of clause
(b) of article 6 be deemed to have migrated to the
territory of India after the nineteenth day of July, 1948.
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Article 13. Laws inconsistent with or in derogation
of the fundamental rights: (1) All laws in force
in the territory of India immediately before the
commencement of this Constitution, in so far as they
are inconsistent with the provisions of this Part, shall,
to the extent of such inconsistency, be void.
(2) The State shall not make any law which takes away
or abridges the rights conferred by this Part and any
law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the
extent of the contravention, be void.
(3) In this article, unless the context otherwise
requires,—
(a) “law” includes any Ordinance, order, bye-law, rule,
regulation, notification, custom or usage
having in the territory of India the force of law;
(b) “laws in force” includes laws passed or made
by a Legislature or other competent authority in
the territory of India before the commencement
of this Constitution and not previously repealed,
notwithstanding that any such law or any part thereof
may not be then in operation either at all or in
particular areas.
(4) Nothing in this article shall apply to any
amendment of this Constitution made under article
368.
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3. Powers of the District Councils and Regional
Councils to make laws: (1) The Regional Council for an
autonomous region in respect of all areas within such
region and the District Council for an autonomous
district in respect of all areas within the district except
those which are under the authority of Regional
Councils, if any, within the district shall have power to
make laws with respect to—
(a) the allotment, occupation or use, or the setting
apart, of land, other than any land which is a reserved
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forest for the purposes of agriculture or grazing or for
residential or other non-agricultural purposes or for
any other purpose likely to promote the interests of
the inhabitants of any village or
town:
Provided that nothing in such laws shall prevent
the compulsory acquisition of any land, whether
occupied or unoccupied, for public purposes [by the
Government of the State concerned] in accordance
with the law for the time being in force authorising
such acquisition;
(b) the management of any forest not being a
reserved forest;
(c) the use of any canal or water-course for the
purpose of agriculture;
(d) the regulation of the practice of jhum or other
forms of shifting cultivation;
(e) the establishment of village or town committees or
councils and their powers;
(f) any other matter relating to village or town
administration, including village or town police and
public health and sanitation;
(g) the appointment or succession of Chiefs or
Headmen;
(h) the inheritance of property;
(i) marriage and divorce;
(j) social customs.
(2) In this paragraph, a “reserved forest” means any
area which is a reserved forest under the Assam
Forest Regulation, 1891, or under any other law for the
time being in force in the area in question.
(3) All laws made under this paragraph shall be
submitted forthwith to the Governor and, until
assented to by him, shall have no effect.
Section 3. Citizenship by birth.-(1) Except as provided
in sub-section (2), every person born in India(a) on or after the 26th day of January, 1950, but before
the 1st day of July, 1987;
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(b) on or after the 1st day of July, 1987, but before the
commencement of the Citizenship (Amendment)
Act, 2003 (6 of 2004) and either of whose parents is a
citizen of India at the time of his birth;
(c) on or after the commencement of the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act, 2003 (6 of 2004),
where:
(i) both of his parents are citizens of India; or
(ii) one of whose parents is a citizen of India and the
other is not an illegal migrant at the time of his birth,
shall be a citizen of India by birth.
(2) A person shall not be a citizen of India by virtue of
this section if at the time of his birth(a) either his father or mother possesses such
immunity from suits and legal process as is accorded
to an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to
the President of India and he or she, as the case may
be, is not a citizen of India; or
(b) his father or mother is an enemy alien and the birth
occurs in a place then under occupation by the enemy.
Section 4. Citizenship by descent: (1) A person born
outside India shall be a citizen of India by descent,(a) on or after the 26th day of January, 1950, but before
the 10th day of December, 1992, if his father is a citizen
of India at the time of his birth; or
(b) on or after the 10th day of December, 1992, if either
of his parents is a citizen of India at the time of his
birth:
Provided that if the father of a person referred to in
clause (a) was a citizen of India by descent only, that
person shall not be a citizen of India by virtue of this
section unless(a) his birth is registered at an Indian consulate within
one year of its occurrence or the commencement of
this Act, whichever is later, or, with the permission of
the Central Government, after the expiry of the said
period; or
(b) his father is, at the time of his birth, in service
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