The National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Act, 2018
# THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR BACKWARD CLASSES 
 (REPEAL) ACT, 2018

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# ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

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# SECTIONS
 1. Short title and commencement. 2. Repeal and savings.


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# THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR BACKWARD CLASSES 
 (REPEAL) ACT, 2018
 ACT NO. 24 OF 2018

[14th August, 2018.]

# An Act to repeal the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

**1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the National Commission for**

Backward Classes (Repeal) Act, 2018.

(2) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official

Gazette, appoint.

**2. Repeal and savings.—(1) The National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993      (27 of**

1993) is hereby repealed and the National Commission for Backward Classes constituted under subsection (1) of section 3 of the said Act shall stand dissolved.

(2) The repeal of the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 (27 of 1993) shall,

however, not affect,—

(i) the previous operation of the Act so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or

(ii) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the Act so repealed;

or

(iii) any penalty, confiscation or punishment incurred in respect of any contravention under the Act so

repealed; or

(iv) any proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty,

confiscation or punishment as aforesaid, and any such proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or
enforced, and any such penalty, confiscation or punishment may be imposed or made as if that Act had not
been repealed.

(3) The mention of the particular matters referred to in sub-section (2) shall not be held to prejudice or

affect the general application of section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897) with regard to the
effect of repeal.

1. 15[th] August, 2018, vide notification No. S.O. 3988(E), dated 14[th] August, 2018, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec.

3(ii).

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