Article 1 - Short title and commencement - Constitution (79th Amendment) Act, 1999

MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 21st January, 2000/Magha 1, 1921 (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, 2000, and is hereby published for general information: THE CONSTITUTION (SEVENTY-NINTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1999 [21st January, 2000.] An Act further to amend the Constitution of India. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. Short title and commencement . (1) This Act may be called the Constitution (Seventy-ninth Amendment) Act, 1999. (2) It shall come into force on the 25th day of January, 2000.