Section 2. Power to extend enactments to certain Union territories

2. Power to extend enactments to certain Union territories.— The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend to[2] [the Union territory of Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur or Tripura or to any part of such territory], with such restrictions and modifications as it thinks fit, any enactment which is in force in a[3] [State] at the date of the notification,[4] * * *. 2. Entry relating to the Married Women's Property Act, 1874 (3 of 1874) omitted by Act 61 of 1959, s. 4 (w.e.f. 1-3-1960). *. Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Out of the 10 States specified in Part C of the First Schedule to the Constitution, only three, namely, Ajmer, Coorg and Delhi, have been provided with easy means of legislation to meet local requirements. Article 242 of the Constitution enables the Coorg Legislative Council to enact measures for that State, while the Ajmer-Merwara (Extension of Laws) Act, 1947, and section 7 of the Delhi Laws Act, 1912, empower the Central Government to extend to Ajmer and Delhi, respectively, any enactment which is in force in any Part A State or any other Part C State. This latter power has been frequently availed of in the past for extending to Delhi and Ajmer Provincial Acts, with modifications to suit local conditions, thereby saving very considerable expenditure of time and labour in the Central Legislature. It is proposed that the same power should be conferred on the Central Government in relation to the other seven Part C States. The Merged States (Laws) Act, 1949, which came into force on 1st January, 1950, inter alia provided for the extension of all the more important Central Acts and Ordinances to four of the new Chief Commissioners' Provinces (now "Part C States"), namely, Bhopal, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh and Kutch. Three more Chief Commissioners' Provinces, namely, Manipur, Tripura and Vindhya Pradesh, subsequently came into existence on the 23rd January, 1950 by virtue of the States Merger (Chief Commissioners' Provinces) Order, 1950. It is necessary to extend the above mentioned Central Acts and Ordinances proprio vigore to these three Part C States, instead of relying on the corresponding law, if any, which may have been in force in the corresponding Indian State at the time it was taken over by the Central Government or may subsequently have been applied by order under the Extra-Provincial Jurisdiction Act. As regards Manipur which has large tribal areas, it is considered that the Civil and Criminal Procedure Codes and certain other Acts should not be brought into force immediately in the whole State, but should be applied later on with modifications for which power would be available under clause 2 of this Bill. The Indian Penal Code has also to be slightly modified in its application to this State in view of certain peculiar marriage customs prevailing there. The Bill is designed to give effect to the above proposals. NEW DELHI; The 24th February, 1950. B.R. AMBEDKAR.