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Timestamp: 2019-06-26 12:54:39
Document Index: 671354871

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 4', 'art 8', 'art 9', 'art 9', 'art 14', 'art 21', 'art 22']

Constitution of India, Constitution of India, 1949
Part 4A. Fundamental Duties
Part 8. The Union Territories
Part 9. The Panchayats
Part 9A. The Municipalities
Chapter 4. Right to Property
Part 14A. Tribunals
Part 21. Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions
Part 22. Short Title, Commencement, Authoritative Text in Hindi and Repeals
and to promote among them all;
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the2[unity and integrity of the Nation];
1. Substituted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section 2, for "SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
2. Substituted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section 2, for "unity of the Nation" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
Article 1. Name and territory of the Union
( 1 ) India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.
1[( 2 ) The States and the territories thereof shall be as specified in the First Schedule].
( 3 ) The territory of India shall comprise-
2[(b) the Union territories specified in the First Schedule; and]
1. Substituted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, section 2, for clause (2).
2. Substituted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, section 2, for sub-clause (b).
Article 2. Admission or establishment of new States
Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States on such terms and conditions, as it thinks fit.
Article 2A. Sikkim to be associated with the Union [Repealed]
1 [2A. Sikkim to be associated with the Union
[Rep. by the Constitution (Thirty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1975, section 5 (w.e.f . 26 - 4 - 1975 ).]]
1. Inserted by the Constitution (Thirty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1974, section 2 (w.e.f. 1-3-1975).
Article 3. Formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States
Parliament may by law-
1[Provided that no Bill for the purpose shall be introduced in either House of Parliament except on the recommendation of the President and unless, where the proposal contained in the Bill affects the area, boundaries or name of any of the States2[** *], the Bill has been referred by the President to the Legislature of that State for expressing its views thereon within such period as may be specified in the reference or within such further period as the President may allow and the period so specified or allowed has expired.]
3[Explanation I.- In this article, in clauses (a) to (e), "State" includes a Union territory, but in the proviso, "State" does not include a Union territory.
Explanation II.- The power conferred on Parliament by clause (a) includes the power to form a new State or Union territory by uniting a part of any State or Union territory to any other State or Union territory.]
1. Substituted by the Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Act, 1955, section 2, for the proviso.
2. The words and letters "specified in Part A or Part Bof the First Schedule" omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, section 29 and Schedule.
3. Inserted by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 1966, section 2.
Article 4. Laws made under articles 2 and 3 to provide for the amendment of the First and the Fourth Schedules and supplemental, incidental and consequential matters
Article 5. Citizenship at the commencement of the Constitution
At the commencement of this Constitution every person who has his domicile in the territory of India and
Article 6. Rights of citizenship of certain persons who have migrated to India from Pakistan
Notwithstanding anything in article 5, a person who has migrated to the territory of India from the territory now included in Pakistan shall be deemed to be a citizen of India at the commencement of this Constitution if
(b) (i) in the case where such person has so migrated before the nineteenth day of July, 1948, he has been ordinarily resident in the territory of India since the date of his migration, or
(ii) in the case where such person has so migrated on or after the nineteenth day of July, 1948, he has been registered as a citizen of India by an officer appointed in that behalf by the Government of the Dominion of India on an application made by him therefore to such officer before the commencement of this Constitution in the form and manner prescribed by that Government:
Article 7. Rights of citizenship of certain migrants to Pakistan
Article 8. Rights of citizenship of certain persons of Indian origin residing outside India
Notwithstanding anything in article 5, any person who or either of whose parents or any of whose grand-parents was born in India as defined in the Government of India Act, 1935 (as originally enacted), and who is ordinarily residing in any country outside India as so defined shall be deemed to be a citizen of India if he has been registered as a citizen of India by the diplomatic or consular representative of India in the country where he is for the time being residing on an application made by him therefore to such diplomatic or consular representative, whether before or after the commencement of this Constitution, in the form and manner prescribed by the Government of the Dominion of India or the Government of India.
Article 9. Persons voluntarily acquiring citizenship of a foreign State not to be citizens
Article 10. Continuance of the rights of citizenship
Article 11. Parliament to regulate the right of citizenship by law