THE JALLIANWALA BAGH NATIONAL MEMORIAL ACT, 1951 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1.  Short title. 
2.  Definitions. 
3.  Objects of the Trust. 
4.  Trustees of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial. 
5.  Term of office of nominated Trustees. 
6.  Property vested in Trustees. 
7.  Power of Trustees to appoint committee of management. 
7A. Power to approve audited accounts. 
8.  Validity of acts of Trustees not to be questioned by reason of vacancy, etc. 
8A. Accounts and audit. 
9.  Power to make rules. 
10.  Power of Trustees to make regulations. 
10A. Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament. 

THE SCHEDULE. 

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THE JALLIANWALA BAGH NATIONAL MEMORIAL ACT, 1951 

ACT NO. 25 OF 1951 

[1st May, 1951.] 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  erection  and  management  of  a  National  Memorial  to  perpetuate  the 
memory of those killed or wounded on the 13th day of April, 1919, in Jallianwala Bagh. 

BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:— 

1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951. 

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

(a) “Memorial” means the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial to perpetuate the memory of those 
killed or wounded on the 13th day of April, 1919, on the site known as the Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar; 

(b) “Trust” means the Trust for the erection and management of the Memorial. 

(c) “Trustees” means the Trustees of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial. 

3. Objects of the Trust.—The objects of the Trust shall be— 

(a)  to  erect  and  maintain  suitable  buildings,  structures  and  parks  at  or  near  the  site  of  the 
Jallianwala  Bagh  in  the  city  of  Amritsar,  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  those  who  were  killed  or 
wounded on the 13th day of April, 1919, on the said site; 

(b) to acquire lands, buildings and other properties for the purposes of the Trust; and 

(c) to raise and receive funds for the purposes of the Memorial. 

4.  Trustees  of  the  Jallianwala  Bagh  National  Memorial.—1[(1)  The  Trustees  of  the  Jallianwala 

Bagh National Memorial shall be the following, namely:— 

(a) the Prime Minister —Chairperson, 

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(c) the Minister in-charge of Culture, 

3[(d) the Leader of Opposition recognised as such in the House of the People or where there is no 

such Leader of Opposition, then the Leader of the single largest Opposition Party in that House;] 

(e) the Governor of the State of Punjab, 

(f) the Chief Minister of the State of Punjab, and 

(g) three eminent persons to be nominated by the Central Government.] 

(2) The Trustees shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession by the name of the “Trustees of the 
Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial” and a common seal, and in that name shall sue and be sued, and shall 

1.  Subs. by Act 51 of 2006, s. 2, for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 21-12-2006). 
2. Clause (b) omitted by Act 39 of 2019, s. 2 (w.e.f. 5-12-2019). 
3. Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for clause (d) (w.e.f. 5-12-2019). 

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have power acquire and hold property, to enter into contracts and to do all acts necessary for, and consistent 
with, the purposes of this Act. 

1 [5.  Term  of  office  of  nominated  Trustees.—The  Trustees  nominated  under  clause  (g)  of                           

sub-section  (1)  of  section  4  shall  be  Trustees  for  a  period  of  five  years,  and  shall  be  eligible  for 
renomination.] 

2[Provided that the term of office of a Trustee nominated under clause (g) of sub-section (1) of section 

4 may be terminated before the expiry of the period of five years by the Central Government]. 

6. Property vested in Trustees.—All the property and funds set out in the Schedule to this Act and 
all  other  property,  whether  movable  or  immovable  which  may  hereafter  be  given,  bequeathed  or 
otherwise transferred for the purposes of the Memorial or acquired for the said purposes shall vest in the 
Trustees. 

7.  Power  of  Trustees  to  appoint  committee  of  management.—(1) For the purposes of managing 
the  affairs  of  the  Trust,  the  Trustees  may,  by  resolution  passed  at  a  meeting,  appoint  a  committee  of 
management, and entrust to it such powers, duties and functions, under such directions and limitations, as 
may be defined by such resolution. 

(2) The Trustees may appoint any person as members of the committee of management, whether such 
person are Trustees or not, and may, from time to time, vary or rescind any resolution passed by it under 
this section. 

3[7A. Power to approve audited accounts.—The Trust shall meet at least once in a year to approve 

the audited accounts of the Trust and shall transact such other business as may be considered necessary.] 

8.  Validity  of  acts  of  Trustees  not  to  be  questioned  by  reason  of  vacancy,  etc.—No  act  of  the 
Trustees shall be deemed to be invalid merely by reason any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution 
of, the body of Trustees. 

4[8A.  Accounts  and  audit.—(1) The accounts of the Trust shall be audited by the Comptroller and 
Auditor-General  of  India  at  such  intervals  as  may  be  specified  by  him  and any  expenditure incurred  in 
connection with such audit shall be payable by the Trust to the Comptroller and Auditor-General. 

(2) The  Comptroller  and Auditor-General and  any  person  appointed  by  him  in  connection  with the 
audit  of  the  accounts  of  the  Trust  under  this  Act  shall,  have  the  same  rights  and  privileges  and  the 
authority  in  connection  with  such  audit  as  the  Comptroller  and  Auditor-General  generally  has  in 
connection with the audit of Government accounts and, in particular, shall have the right to demand the 
production  of  books,  accounts,  connected  vouchers  and  other  documents  and  papers  and  to  inspect  the 
office of the Trust. 

(3) The accounts of the Trust as certified by the Comptroller and Auditor-General or any other person 
appointed by him in this behalf, together with the audit report thereon shall be forwarded annually to the 
Central Government by the Trust and the Central Government shall cause the audit report to be laid, as 
soon as may be, after it is received, before each House of Parliament.] 

9. Power to make rules.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, 

make rules to carry out the objects of this Act. 

1. Subs. by Act 51 of 2006, s. 3, for section 5 (w.e.f. 21-12-2006). 
2. Ins. by Act 39 of 2019, s. 3 (w.e.f. 5-12-2019). 
3. Ins. by Act 51 of 2006, s. 4 (w.e.f. 21-12-2006). 
4. Ins. by s. 5, ibid.(w.e.f. 21-12-2006). 

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(2)  In  particular,  and  without  prejudice  to  the  generality  of  the  foregoing  power,  such  rules  may 

provide for— 

(a) the manner in which funds belonging to the Memorial shall be kept deposited or invested; 

(b) the mode of authentication of orders for payment of money by the Trustees; 

(c) the form in which accounts shall be kept by the Trustees and the audit and publication of such 

accounts; 

(d) the laying out, erection, improvement, maintenance and management of the Memorial and the 

care and custody of the properties thereof. 

(e) the  conditions  under  which  the  public  shall  have access  to the  Memorial  or  particular  parts 

thereof and the regulation of the conduct of persons entering the precincts of the Memorial; 

(f) the preservation of, and the prevention of injury to or interference with, any property vested in 

the Trustees and the prevention of persons from trespassing into any particular part of the Memorial. 

1[(2A) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be 
after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days 
which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of 
the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in 
making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall 
thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that 
any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done 
under that rule.] 

(3) A rule made under this section made provide that a breach of any rule made under clauses (e) and 

(f) of sub-section (2) shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees. 

10.  Power  of  Trustees  to  make  regulations.—The  Trustees  may  make  regulations  consistent  with 

this Act for all or any of the following purposes, namely:— 

(a) the manner in which meetings of the Trustees shall be convened the quorum for the transaction 

of any business thereat and the procedure at such meetings; 

(b) the manner in which a majority decision of the Trustees shall be obtained by circulation to the 

Trustees of the matter requiring decision; 

(c) the term of office of members of the committee of management their powers and duties, and the 
circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which such powers and duties may be exercised; 

(d) the appointment of such officers and servants as may be necessary for the purposes of the Trust, 

and their terms and conditions of service. 

1. Ins. by Act 4 of 2005, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 11-1-2005). 

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1[10A. Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament.—Every rule or regulation made under 
this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in 
session,  for  a  total  period  of  thirty  days  which  may  be  comprised  in  one  session  or  in  two  or  more 
successive  sessions,  and  if,  before  the  expiry  of  the  session  immediately  following  the  session  or  the 
successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or regulation or 
both Houses agree that the rule or regulation should not be made, the rule or regulation shall thereafter 
have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such 
modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under 
that rule or regulation.] 

1. Ins. by Act 51 of 2006, s. 6, for section 10 (w.e.f. 21-12-2006). 

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THE SCHEDULE 

(See section 6) 

[Properties vested in Trustees at commencement of Act] 

PART 1—IMMOVABLE   PROPERTIES 

1.The piece of land known as the Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, measuring 49 kanals 17 marlas, that is 

to say, 6 37/160  acres or thereabouts. 

2. Two pieces of land, one measuring 49 1/2  by 31 feet or thereabouts and the other 35 by 9 1/4 yards 
on the east and by 8 yards on the west or thereabouts, and conveyed to the then Trustees of the Memorial 
by  a  deed  of  sale,  registered  on  the  20th  September,  1920  as  No.  5960,  Bahi  No.1,  Volume  No.1572, 
pages 19 to 46 of the office of the Registrar, Amritsar. 

3. All the buildings and other structures standing on the lands referred to in items1 and 2 above. 

Item 
No. 

PART II—MOVABLE   PROPERTIES 

Description of investments 

1.  Government of Madras, 3% loan, 1952, No. D.H. 000034  .    .   . . 

2.  Government of Madras, 3% loan, 1952, No. D.H. 000035  .    .   . . 

Rs. 

25,000 

25,000 

3.  Fixed Deposit in the Central Bank of India Ltd., Amritsar  .    .   . . 

1,10,000 

4. 

5. 

Interest accrued on Item 3 upto 14th November, 1950  .    .   . . 

In current account in the Central Bank of India Ltd., Amritsar  .     

2,750 

6,586 

6.  Government  of  Utter  Pradesh  loan,  1960,  purchased  through  the 

49,675 

Punjab National Bank, Amritsar    .    .   .   . 

7.  Amount placed in sundries in the Punjab National Bank, Amritsar  

4,700 

8.  Fixed  Deposit  in the  Bank  of  Nagpur  Ltd., Wardah, under receipt 

1,13,270 

No. 00518   .    .   .      . 

9. 

Interest Item 8 above   .    .   .      . 

10.  Fixed Deposit in the Bank of Nagpur, Ltd., Wardah, under receipt 

No. 00519   .    .   .      . 

11. 

Interest on Item 10 above   .    .   .    . 

12. 

In current account with Messrs. Bachharaj and Co., Ltd., Bombay       

13.  Cash in hand on 24th November, 1950 .    .   .      . 

3,681 

40,336 

1,310 

9,573 

1,872 

Amount 

A. 

P. 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

1 

12 

5 

4 

13 

14 

6 

9 

0 

0 

0 

0 

1 

4 

8 

6 

0 

0 

0 

0 

9 

14.  Moneys due from Government by way of refund of excess income-

Amount not known. 

tax   .    .   .      . 

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