THE ASSAM MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1968

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    "title": "THE ASSAM MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1968",
    "short_title": "The Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Act, 1968",
    "act_number": "XX",
    "act_year": 1968,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "1966-10-17",
    "description": "The Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Act, 1968",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An Act",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "further to amend the Assam Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1947 and to amend the Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Autonomous Districts) Act, 1953.",
            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Preamble",
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            "content": "WHEREAS it is expedient in the interest of public order to further amend the Assam Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1947, and to amend the Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Autonomous Districts) Act, 1953 and for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter appearing.\nIt is hereby enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—",
            "footnote": "Assam Act V of 1947; Assam Act XVI of 1953",
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            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "This Act may be called the Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Act, 1968.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It extends to the whole of Assam.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It shall come into force at once.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "After the word \"community\" and before the word \"and\" appearing in the preamble of the Assam Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1947, the words \"and to regulate the use and sale of certain dress\" shall be inserted.",
            "footnote": "Assam Act V of 1947",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "After section 8G of the Assam Maintenance of Public Order Act, 1947, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—\n\"8H. If the State Government considers it necessary or expedient in the public interest or in the interest of public safety or maintenance of public order that the use, possession or sale of any official Uniform, Indian or Foreign, or any dress so nearly resembling such Uniform as to be calculated to deceive should be regulated, the State Government may, by general or special order, direct that no person shall without lawful authority use, possess or sell such official Uniform or dress without a licence or permit from the Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer, as the case may be, within their respective jurisdiction.\"",
            "footnote": "Assam Act V of 1947",
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            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "After section 13C of the Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Autonomous Districts) Act, 1953 the following section shall be inserted, namely:—\r\n\"13D. If the State Government consider it necessary or expedient in the public interest or in the interest of public safety or maintenance of public order that the use, possession or sale of any official Uniform, Indian or Foreign, or any dress so nearly resembling such Uniform as to be calculated to deceive should be regulated, the State Government may, by general or special order, direct that no person shall without lawful authority use, possess or sell such official Uniform or dress without a licence or permit from the Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer, as the case may be, within their respective jurisdiction.\"",
            "footnote": "Assam Act XVI of 1953",
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            "sort_order": 70
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "196820",
        "Act Number": "XX",
        "Enactment Date": "1968-10-15",
        "Act Year": "1968",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Act, 1968",
        "Department": "LAW DEPARTMENT",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:16"
}