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294                     THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                                     (Sixth Schedule)

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        10. Power of District Council to make regulations for the control
of money-lending and trading by non-tribals.—(1) The District
Council of an autonomous district may make regulations for the
regulation and control of money-lending or trading within the district by
persons other than Scheduled Tribes resident in the district.

      (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing power, such regulations may—

               (a) prescribe that no one except the holder of a licence issued
       in that behalf shall carry on the business of money-lending;
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             (b) prescribe the maximum rate of interest which may be
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       charged or be recovered by a money-lender;
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              (c) provide for the maintenance of accounts by money-lenders
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       and for the inspection of such accounts by officers appointed in that
       behalf by the District Council;

               (d) prescribe that no person who is not a member of the
       Scheduled Tribes resident in the district shall carry on wholesale or
       retail business in any commodity except under a licence issued in that
       behalf by the District Council:




1. Paragraph 10 has been amended in its application to the States of Tripura and
   Mizoram by the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 1988 (67 of
   1988) (w.e.f. 16-12-1988) s.2, as under—
       (a) in the heading, the words “by non-tribals” shall be omitted;
      (b) in sub-paragraph (1), the words “other than Scheduled Tribes” shall be
   omitted;
      (c) in sub-paragraph (2), for clause (d), the following clause shall be
   substituted, namely:—
                 "(d) prescribe that no person resident in the district shall carry on any
           trade, whether wholesale or retail, except under a licence issued in that behalf
           by the District Council:”.

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