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Defence of India Ordinance, 1962Ordinance · 1962

(1) This Ordinance may be called the Defence of India Ordinance, 1962 -- Short title, extent, application commencement and savings.(319) 320 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINABY [PAW II

(2) It extends to the whole of India and it applies also—

(a) to citizens of India outside India;

(fa) to persons in the services of the Government, wherever they may be;

(c) in respect of the regulation and discipline of the naval, military and air force or any other armed forces of the Union, to members of, and persons attached to, employed with, or following, those forces, wherever they may be;

(d) to, and to persons on, ships and aircraft registered in India, wherever they may be.

(3) This section shall come into force at once and the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall come into force on such date or dates as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions and different areas.

(4) The cesser of operation of this Ordinance shall not affect—

(a) the previous operation of, or any thing duly done or suffered under, this Ordinance or any rule made thereunder or any order made under any such rule, or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under this Ordinance or any rUhr~Tnade_ thereunder or any order made under any such rule, or

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence under this Ordinance or any contravention of any rule made under this Ordinance or of any order made under any such rule, or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid;

and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Ordinance had not ceased to operate.

Definitions. %. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) 'civil defence' includes any measures not amounting to actual combat, for affording defence against any form of hostile attack by a foreign power or for depriving any form of hostile attack by a foreign power of its effect either wholly or in part, whether such measures are taken before, during or after the time of the attack;

(b) 'Civil Defence Services' means the services formed wholly or mainly to meet the needs of civil defence;

(c) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;

(d) 'Proclamation of Emergency' means a Proclamation issued under clause (1) of article 352 of the Constitution;

(e) 'State Government' in relation to a Union territory means the administrator thereof.

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ActDefence of India Ordinance, 1962
Section1
StatusIn force as published by the source

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