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.
 

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 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1993)  is  hereby  repealed  and  the  National  Commission  for  Backward  Classes  constituted  under  sub-
section (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(i) the previous operation of the Act so repealed or anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or 

(ii) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the Act so repealed; 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repealed; or 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been repealed.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