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Contravention, an act done in violation of a legal condition or obligation; particularly any act by an heir of entail in opposition to the provisions of the deed of entail; also, the action founded on the breach of law-burrows, Bell's Dict.

--Art. 13(2) provides that the law shall be void to the extent of the contravention. Contravention in the context takes place only once when the law is made, for the contravention is of the prohibition to make any law which takes away or abridges the fundamental rights. There is no question of the contravention of Art. 13(2) being a continuing matter, Mahendra Lal Jaini v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 1019 (1030): 1963 Supp (1) SCR 912. [Constitution of India, Art. 13(2)]

Contravention, in relation to any requirement of the Act, includes a failure to comply with the requirement, Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963, s. 55(1) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 56, p. 37.