TN notifies 10 Acts without Guv’s sign
Tamil Nadu
DC Correspondent 13 April 2025 1:30 AM
The Supreme Court bench led by Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan also said the Bills should be considered as having received the assent on the date they were resubmitted on November 18, 2023. Supreme Court.(DC File Photo)
Chennai:For the first time in the country’s legislative history, the Tamil Nadu government on Saturday notified 10 Acts without receiving assent from the Governor or the President following the recent Supreme Court verdict which held that the Bills, which were passed a second time by the state Assembly and then referred to the President by the Governor, were deemed to have been given the assent.
The Acts were officially notified through the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary dated April 11, 2025, since the Supreme Court ruled on April 8 that the Governor’s action of sending the Bills to the President as unconstitutional and a violation of Article 200 of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court bench led by Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan also said the Bills should be considered as having received the assent on the date they were resubmitted on November 18, 2023. Of the 10 Acts, seven are about replacing the Governor with the Chief Minister as the vice chancellor of the universities.
They are the Madras University (Amendment) Act, 2022;
the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (Amendment) Act, 2022;
the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University (Amendment) Act, 2022;
the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University (Amendment) Act, 2022;
the Tamil University (Amendment) Act, 2022 and the Anna University (Amendment) Act.
The Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Amendment) Act, 2020,
the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Further Amendment) Act, 2023, and the Tamil Nadu Fisheries University (Amendment) Act, 2020 are about introducing structural changes in the universities concerned while the Siddha Medical University Act, 2023 is for the formation of the university. ( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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