MEGHALAYA CRIMINAL LAW

S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Meghalaya Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1972.

(2) It shall have the like extent and the Principal Rules.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 22nd day of February, 1972.

S.2 Amendment of the principal Rules

The Rules for the Administration of Justice and Police in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, stand amended as follows:

(1) In Rule 1, for the words, "the United Khasi-Jaintia Hills District", the words, "the Khasi Hills District and the Jaintia Hills District" shall be substituted.

(2) In the principal Rules, for the words "the Khasi and Jaintia Hills", wherever they occur, the words, "the Khasi Hills District and Jaintia Hills District" shall be substituted.

(3) In Rules 6 and 33 of the principal Rules, the words "and the Sub-divisional Officer, Jowai" shall be deleted.

S.3 Deletion of sub-section (3) of Section 2 of Assam Act 14 of 1960

Sub-section (3) of Section 2 of the Assam Autonomous Districts Administration of Justice Act, 1960 as amended by the Assam Act 12 of 1968 shall be deleted.

S.4 Assimilation of Laws

All laws which immediately before the coming into force of this Act, in force in the United Khasi- Jaintia Hills District, shall continue to be in force in the Khasi Hills District and the Jaintia Hills District:

Provided that except where the context otherwise requires all references therein to the Deputy Commissioner, Additional Deputy Commissioner or Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of the United Khasi-Jaintia Hills District, Sub-divisional Officer, Jowai, as the case may be, shall be read as referring respectively to the Deputy Commissioner, Additional Deputy Commissioner, or Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of the Khasi Hills District and the Jaintia Hills Districts;

Provided further that every case, suit, appeal, application for revision proceedings or other business relating to both civil and criminal justice pending before the Court of Deputy Commissioner, Additional Deputy Commissioner or Assistant to t

S.5 Power to remove difficulty

If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Governor may, by order, do anything not inconsistent with such provisions which appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of removing the difficulty.