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India
(Consequential Provisions)
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subsection (4) of this section, have the same effect in relation to India, and persons and things in any way belonging to or connected with India, as it would have had if India had not become a Republic and subsection (1) of section one of this Act 5 had not been enacted.
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(2) In this section the expression "existing law means law which, whether being a rule of law, or a provision of an Act of Parliament or of any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, is in force on the said twenty-sixth day of January [on the date declared as aforesaid], or comes into force after that date by virtue of provision for its so coming into force in an Act of Parliament or other enactment or instrument passed or made before that date.
(3) This section extends to existing law which has effect as 15 law of, or of any part of, the United Kingdom, a colony, a protectorate or a United Kingdom trust territory, and also, so far as concerns law which cannot be amended by a law of the legislature thereof, to existing law which has effect as law of Southern Rhodesia or of any part thereof.
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The references in this subsection to a colony, to a protectorate and to a United Kingdom trust territory, shall be construed as if they were references contained in the British Nationality Act, 1948.
(4) His Majesty may by Order in Council make such modifica- 25 tions of any existing law to which this section extends (other than the provisions of the British Nationality Act, 1948) as may appear to him to be necessary or expedient in view of India's becoming a Republic while remaining a member of the Common- wealth, and subsection (1) of this section shall apply to any such 30 law as modified by such an Order, save in so far as the contrary intention appears in the Order, unless and until provision to the contrary is made by the authority having power to alter that law.
(5) An Order in Council under this section--
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(a) may be made either before or after the said twenty-sixth
day of January [the date declared as aforesaid];
(b) may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order in
Council; and
(c) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution
of either House of Parliament.
(6) Any increase attributable to an Order in Council under this section in sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof shall be defrayed out of moneys so provided, or out of that Fund or the growing produce thereof, 45 as the case may be.
A.D. 1949
3. This Act may be cited as the India (Consequential Pro- Short title. visions) Act,pa
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