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Section 35: Inconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by the Legislature of Meghalaya.

The Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969Central Act · Act 55 of 1969

(1) If any provision of a law made by the Legislature of Meghalaya is repugnant to any provision of a law made by Parliament which Parliament is competent to enact, or to any provision of any existing law with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, then, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the law made by Parliament, whether passed before or after the law, made by the Legislature of Meghalaya, or, as the case may be, the existing law, shall prevail and the law made by the Legislature of Meghalaya shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void.

(2) Where a law made by the Legislature of Meghalaya with respect to one of the matters enumerated in the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, which the Legislature of Meghalaya is competent to enact under this Act contains any provision repugnant to the provision of an earlier law made by Parliament or an existing law with respect to that matter, then, the law so made by the Legislature of Meghalaya shall, if it has been reserved for the consideration of the President and has received his assent, prevail in Meghalaya:

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall prevent Parliament from enacting at any time, any law with respect to the same matter, including a law adding to, amending, varying or repealing the law so made by the Legislature of Meghalaya.

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ActThe Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969
Section35
Marginal noteInconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by the Legislature of Meghalaya.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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