Constitution Section 243ZC — Part not to apply to certain areas

Part IXA — THE MUNICIPALITIES

Constitutional

Summary

This section says that the rules in this Part do not apply to Scheduled Areas and tribal areas mentioned in Article 244. It also says that these rules do not affect the powers of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in West Bengal. However, Parliament can pass a law to apply these rules to those areas, with changes, and such a law will not count as a constitutional amendment.

Official Text

(1) Nothing in this Part shall apply to the Scheduled Areas referred to in clause (1), and the tribal areas referred to in clause (2) of article 244.

(2) Nothing in this Part shall be construed to affect the functions and powers of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council constituted under any law for the time being in force for the hill areas of the district of Darjeeling in the State of West Bengal.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, Parliament may, by law, extend the provisions of this Part to the Scheduled Areas and the tribal areas referred to in clause (1) subject to such exceptions and modifications as may be specified in such law, and no such law shall be deemed to be an amendment of this Constitution for the purposes of article 368.