Indian constitution amendments 17 to 36
Indian constitution amendments 17 to 36 17. The Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 1964 —Article 31A was further amended to prohibit the acquisition of land under personal cultivation unless the market value of the land is paid as compensation and the definition of “estate” as contained in that Article had also been enlarged with retrospective effect. The Ninth Schedule had also been amended to include 44 more Acts. 18. The Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 1966 —Article 3 was amended by this Act to specify that the expression “State” will include a union territory also and to make it clear that the power to form a new state under this Article includes a power to form a new state or union territory by uniting a part of a state or a union territory to another state or union territory. 19. The Constitution (Nineteenth Amendment) Act, 1966 —Article 324 was amended to effect a consequential change as a result of the decision to abolish Election Tribunals and to hear el...