Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939 Preamble 1 - Bare Act

Act Info:

REGISTRATION FO FOREIGNERS ACT, 1939¹

[Act, No. 16 of 1939]

[8th April, 1939]

PREAMBLE

An Act to provide for the registration-of foreigners in²[India].

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the registration of foreigners entering, being present in, and departing from, [India];

It is hereby enacted as follows:-

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1. Extended to Pondicherry by G.S.A. 155, dated 24th November, 1962, Gazette of India, Pt. II, section 3 (i) p. 1886.

2. Substituted by Act 37 of 1949, section 2, for "the Provisions of India".