Article 1 - Short title and commencement - Constitution (56th Amendment) Act, 1987

MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 25th May, 1987/Jyaistha 4, 1909 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 23rd May, 1987, and is hereby published for general information: THE CONSTITUTION (FIFTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1987 [23rd May, 1987.] An Act further to amend the Constitution of India. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. Short title and commencement . (1) This Act may be called the Constitution (Fifty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1987. (2) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. ***************** NOTES:- 1 . 30-5-1987: vide Notification No. S.O. 517(E), dated 26-5-1987.