Section 2. Definitions

2. Definitions .—In this Act,— (a) "appointed day" means the date appointed under sub-section (2) of section 1 for the coming into force of this Act; (b) "law" means so much of any Act, Ordinance, Regulation, rule, order or bye-law as relates to any of the matters enumerated in Lists I and III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. (c) "scheduled areas" mean the areas specified in the Schedule. 2. (a) Panbari Reserved Forest. - (b) Upper Daigurung Reserved Forest. - (c) Lower Daigurung Reserved Forest. (d) Village lands of Ghatiani Pathar, Dokhara Pathar and Murphuloni of Mauza Marangi in original Mikir Hills Tracts. (e) Portion of Barpathar Mauza east of Dhansiri river and north-east of Garampani Kaliani Road. (f) Portion of Ghiladhari Mauza in original Mikir Hills Tracts. - (g) Portion of Sarupathar Mauza east of Dhansiri river. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Certain areas of the Mikir Hills, which is an autonomous district in Assam specified in Part A of the Table appended to paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, have been excluded from that district and incorporated in the adjoining plain districts of Nowgong and Sibsagar. But under article 372 (1) of the Constitution, all the Acts, Rules, Regulations, etc., which applied to these areas proprie vigore or were specifically applied thereto before the commencement of the Constitution with modifications under the Scheduled District Act, 1874, or under section 92 of the Government of India Act, 1935, are in force and will continue to be in force in these areas until altered or repealed. In order to administer these areas under the normal laws in force in the rest of State of Assam, it is necessary for the appropriate legislature to pass legislation repealing the laws now in force in these areas and applying to them all such laws as are in force in the respective districts in which they have been incorporated. The Government of Assam have already draw up a Bill to extend to those areas the laws pertaining to matters in the State List in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. The object of this Bill is to make provision for the extension to these areas of the laws pertaining to the Union and Concurrent Lists. NEW DELHI: The 14 th March , 1953. K.N. KATJU.