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CHAPTER VI—Scheduled and Tribal Areas

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Administration of scheduled and tribal areas.

(a) the expression “scheduled areas” means the areas specified in Parts I to VII of the table appended to paragraph 18 of the Fifth Schedule in relation to the States to which those Parts respectively relate;

(b) the expression “tribal areas” means the areas specified in Parts I and II of the table appended to paragraph 19 of the Sixth Schedule.

  1. (1) The provisions of the Fifth Schedule shall apply to the administration and control of the scheduled areas and scheduled tribes in any State for the time being specified in Part I of the First Schedule.

(2) The provisions of the Sixth Schedule shall apply to the administration of the tribal areas in the State of Assam.

CHAPTER VII—The High Courts in the States

Meaning of 191. (1) For the purposes of this Constitution “High Court”. the following courts shall, in relation to the territory of India except the States for the time being specified in Part III of the First Schedule, be deemed to be High Courts, that is to say,—

(a) the High Courts in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Allahabad, Patna and Nagpur, the High Court of East run jab and the Chief Court in Oudh;

(b) any other court in any of these States constituted or re-constituted under this Chapter as a High Court; and

(c) any other court in any of these States which may be declared by the appropriate Legislature by law to be a High Court for the purposes of this Constitution: