The Aim of this repository is to give Bare Laws of India to 
read and to understand for each and every person in India. All 
amendments will be available as patches within amendment 
directory. Present directory contains bare laws without any 
footnotes of amendment.

We believe laws directly or indirectly affect everyone and each 
and everyone should work towards getting simplest laws which 
each and everyone can understand so they can follow it. A law 
which cannot be understood cannot be followed.

All Acts are as amended on 1st January 2023.

Nomenclature of law files:
start-year_act-name-replacing-spaces-with-underscores.md
2022_Maharashtra_Local_Authorities_Act.md

If name is very big, abbreviations have been used.

Optionally, Bharatiya kanoon also allows you to suggest an 
amendment to your elected sansad through a patch file. It is highly 
advised that you put a lot of effort into thinking how laws should be 
and even a small patch is to be suggested with utmost care as 
Bharat runs on these laws.

Steps to follow:
1. cd to bharatiya_kanoon directory .
2. Add executable permission to setup and genpatch scripts for your 
   user using "chmod u+x setup.sh" and "chmod u+x genpatch.sh".
3. ./setup.sh
4. Change txt file of law in Suggested directory .

Present directory contains all laws as they're in the current situation.
Suggested contains your version of laws which specify how you 
want a law to be.

5. Generate sujhaav.patch file by executing "./genpatch.sh" in 
   bharatiya_kanoon directory.
6. Attach patch file to your email, add comments stating why amend 
   that law and send it to:

your_local_mla_email - State list amendments
your_local_mp_email  - Union list amendments
your_local_mla_email , your_local_mp_email - Concurrent list amendments

Contributions to this repository are welcome from all Indians who 
would be verified by Aadhaar Number. Suggestions on better 
representations with respect to readability, structure, are appreciated.

All repealed clauses have been removed. If earlier clauses have been removed, 
a [repealed] clause has been added to make the reader understand numbering.


Many Acts contain footnotes as to application to Puducherry, Daman and Diu, 
etc. Such footnote is omitted if a section is found that contains that, "This 
Act applies to whole of India" as above are a part of India.
