MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 22nd January, 2020/Magha 2, 1941 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament, after having been ratified by the Legislatures of not less than one-half of the States by resolutions to that effect, received the assent of the President on the 21st January, 2020, and is hereby published for general information:-

THE CONSTITUTION (ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019

[21st January, 2020.]

An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Short title and commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Constitution (One Hundred and Fourth Amendment) Act, 2019.

    (2) It shall come into force on the 25th day of January, 2020.

Amendment of article 334.

2. In article 334 of the Constitution,-

(a) for the marginal heading, the following marginal heading shall be substituted, namely:-

“Reservation of seats and special representation to cease after certain period”;

(b) in the long line, after clauses (a) and (b), for the words "seventy years", the words "eighty years in respect of clause (a) and seventy years in respect of clause (b)" shall be substituted.

DR. G. NARAYANA RAJU,

Secretary to the Govt. of India

Reservation of seats extended for one constitutional clause; special representation period remains unchanged by amendment. The Act amends article 334 by substituting its marginal heading with a heading concerning cessation of reservation and special representation, and by replacing the prior uniform temporal expression with differentiated periods for clauses (a) and (b); it also specifies the Act's commencement date and records requisite legislative ratification prior to presidential assent.