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THE UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1967
No. 37 of 1967
[30th December, 1967]
An Act to provide for the more effective prevention of certain unlawful activities of individuals and associations and for matters connected therewith.
be it enacted by Parliament in the Eighteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
Short title and extent.
1. (1) This Act may be called the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
Definitions. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise require-
- (a) "association" means any combination or body of individuals;
- (b) "cession of a part of the territory of 'India" includes admission of the claim of any foreign country to any such part;
- (c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
- (d) "secession of a part of the territory of India from the Union" includes the assertion of any claim to determine whether such part will remain a part of the territory of India;
- (e) "Tribunal" means the Tribunal constituted under section 5;
- (f) "unlawful activity", in relation to an individual or association, means any action taken by such individual or
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