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13                       THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                          (Part III.—Fundamental Rights)
          Provided that nothing in this sub-clause shall authorise the detention
       of any person beyond the maximum period prescribed by any law made
       by Parliament under sub-clause (b) of clause (7); or
          (b) such person is detained in accordance with the provisions of any
       law made by Parliament under sub-clauses (a) and (b) of clause (7).
        (5) When any person is detained in pursuance of an order made under
any law providing for preventive detention, the authority making the order
shall, as soon as may be, communicate to such person the grounds on which the
order has been made and shall afford him the earliest opportunity of making a
representation against the order.                             e
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      (6) Nothing in clause (5) shall require the authority making any such
order as is referred to in that clause to disclose facts which such authority
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considers to be against the public interest to disclose.
       (7) Parliament may by law prescribe—
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           (a) the circumstances under which, and the class or classes of cases
       in which, a person may be detained for a period longer than three months
       under any law providing for preventive detention without obtaining the
       opinion of an Advisory Board in accordance with the provisions of
       sub-clause (a) of clause (4);
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            (b) the maximum period for which any person may in any class or
       classes of cases be detained under any law providing for preventive
       detention; and
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             (c) the procedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in an
       inquiry under sub-clause (a) of clause (4).


 Sub-clause (a) shall stand omitted by the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act,
  1978, s. 3(b)(i) (date to be notified).
 Sub-clause (b) shall stand re-lettered as sub-clause (a) by s. 3(b)(ii), ibid. (date to be
  notified).
 Sub-clause (c) shall stand re-lettered as sub-clause (b) by s. 3(b)(iii), ibid. (date to be
  notified).
 Sub-clause (a) of clause (4) shall stand substituted as "clause (4)" by s. 3(b)(iii),
  ibid. (date to be notified).

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