{
    "id": 3017,
    "slug": "the-assam-contingency-fund-amendment-act-1974",
    "title": "THE ASSAM CONTINGENCY FUND (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1974",
    "short_title": "The Assam Contingency Fund (Amendment) Act, 1974",
    "act_number": "XXVII",
    "act_year": 1974,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "repealed",
    "enactment_date": "1974-10-30",
    "description": "The Assam Contingency Fund (Amendment) Act, 1974",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Preamble",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "An Act further to amend the Assam Contingency Fund Act, 1950.\nWhereas it is expedient to amend the Assam Contingency Fund Act, 1950, herein called the principal Act,\nIt is hereby enacted in the Twenty-fifth year of the Republic of India as follows:-",
            "footnote": "Assam Act IX of 1950",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title and commencement",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Contingency Fund (Amendment) Act, 1974.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) It shall come into force at once and shall remain valid upto 31st March, 1975.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Amendment of Section 3 of Assam Act IX of 1950",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2. In the principal Act, to Section 3, the following proviso shall be added.",
            "footnote": "Assam Act IX of 1950",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 2",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that during the period of operation of the Assam Contingency Fund (Amendment) Act, 1974, a further sum of ten crores of rupees shall be paid from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of Assam into the Contingency Fund of Assam.\nThe sums authorised to be paid and applied from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of Assam by this Act shall be appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the Schedule in relation to the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1975 and shall be re-transferred from the Contingency Fund to the Consolidated Fund of Assam on or before the 1st April, 1975.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Repeal and saving",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3. (1) The Assam Contingency Fund (Amendment) Ordinance, 1974 is hereby repealed.",
            "footnote": "Assam Ordinance I of 1974",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Ordinance so repealed shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act as if this Act had commenced on the twenty-ninth day of June. 1974.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "Schedule - Appropriation to the Contingency Fund",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Services and purposes by Major Heads: 769-Appropriation to the Contingency Fund.\r\nSums not exceeding: Rs. 10,00,00,000",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "197427",
        "Act Number": "XXVII",
        "Enactment Date": "1974-10-30",
        "Act Year": "1974",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Contingency Fund (Amendment) Act, 1974",
        "Department": "Law Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}