278 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
309 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948
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- Power of Governor to make regulations.—(1) The Governor may make regulations for any scheduled area in the State with respect to the trial of cases relating to offences other than those which are punishable with death, transportation for life or imprisonment for five years or upwards, or for the trial of such classes of suits or cases of small pecuniary value as may be specified in such regulations, and may also by such regulations empower the headmen or panchayats in any such area to try such cases or suits.
(2) The Governor may also make regulations so as to prohibit the transfer of any land in a scheduled area in the State by a member of the scheduled tribes to any person who is not a member of the scheduled tribes.
(3) Any regulations made under this paragraph when promulgated by the Governor shall have the same force and effect as any Act of the appropriate Legislature which applies to such area and has been enacted by virtue of the powers conferred on that Legislature by this Constitution.
Part V
SCHEDULED AREAS
*18. Scheduled areas.—(1) The areas specified in Parts I to VII of the Table below shall be the scheduled areas within the meaning of this Constitution, and any reference in the said Table to any division, district, administrative area, tahsil or estate shall be construed as a reference to that division, district, area, tahsil or estate as existing on the date of commencement of this Constitution.
(2) The President may at any time by Order—
(a) direct that the whole or any specified part of a scheduled area shall cease to be a scheduled area or a part of such an area;
(b) alter, but only by way of rectification of boundaries, any scheduled area;
*The Committee is of opinion that a provision on the lines of section
91(2) of the Government of India Act, 1935, as originally enacted, should be included in this paragraph to enable any area to be excluded from or included in the scheduled areas and the Committee has accordingly added sub-paragraph (2) to this paragraph.