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289                  THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                                 (Sixth Schedule)

       (4) A Regional Council or District Council, as the case may be, may
with the previous approval of the Governor make rules regulating —
               (a) the constitution of village councils and courts and the
       powers to be exercised by them under this paragraph;
               (b) the procedure to be followed by village councils or courts in
       the trial of suits and cases under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph;
               (c) the procedure to be followed by the Regional or District
       Council or any court constituted by such Council in appeals and other
       proceedings under sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph;
               (d) the enforcement of decisions and orders of such councils
       and courts;
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               (e) all other ancillary matters for the carrying out of the
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       provisions of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph.
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         [(5) On and from such date as the President may, 2[after consulting the
Government of the State concerned], by notification appoint in this behalf, this
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paragraph shall have effect in relation to such autonomous district or region as
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may be specified in the notification, as if—
               (i) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words “between the parties all of
       whom belong to Scheduled Tribes within such areas, other than suits
       and cases to which the provisions of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 5
       of this Schedule apply,”, the words “not being suits and cases of the
       nature referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph (5) of this
       Schedule, which the Governor may specify in this behalf,” had been
       substituted;
               (ii) sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) had been omitted;
               (iii) in sub-paragraph (4)—
                        (a) for the words “A Regional Council or District
               Council, as the case may be, may with the previous approval of
               the Governor make rules regulating”, the words “the Governor
               may make rules regulating” had been substituted; and
                         (b) for clause (a), the following clause had been
               substituted, namely:—

1. Ins. by the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 (55 of 1969), s. 74 and
   Fourth Sch. (w.e.f. 2-4-1970).
2. Subs. by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 (81 of 1971), s. 71(i)
   and Eighth Sch., for certain words (w.e.f. 21-1-1972).

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