The development of a TEXTBASE on LEGISLATIONS is important from at least three points of view. First, every Legislative Counsel always wishes to summon up all the applicable Local Precedents which requires the painful task of identifying the Amendments in solving out a Legislative Drafting Problem. Secondly, all the concerned officials need to maintain the 'Cut and Paste' versions of these Legislations relevent to their day-to-day operations which is always a time-taking job for concerned officials involved in this job.
Thirdly all the acts are not available in up-to-date form as and when required by general people,lawyers,judges and all others interested in it. In fact, this is the most vital reason why we should make INDIA CODE TEXTBASE available on INTERNET.
Keeping all these in view, INDIA CODE TEXTBASE, a TEXTBASE of all the Central Legislations was created and developed.
With the help of this system , not only the procedures of locating the relevent precedents and amendments are highly simplified but retrieving any Central Act of one's interest in an up-to-date form has also been made extremely User-Friendly and accessible at push of few buttons.
Comparedto it, the traditional tools of the Legislative Drafting and Searching appear to be of Stone Age Technology. The power,speed and simplicity of INDIA CODE ACT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM is stunning.
WHAT IS IN IT :-
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This TextBase consists of all the Central Acts of Parliament as on Date right from 1834 onwards. This includes all the Sections,Schedules,Short Title,Enactment Date and also very significant Foot-Notes in every act. besides, Statement of Objects and Reasons (S.O.R.), Table of Contents (TOC) or the Status of an Act can also be had from this system. At every level, an on-line HELP module is made available in case the user needs any assistance or gets stuck up.
What is expected of a USER :-
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To retrieve any act of one's interest, the user should know one or more of the following bits of information :
1. Act Year ,
2. Act Number,
3. Section Number,
4. Schedule Number,
5. A Word or a combination of Words appearing anywhere in the text of the Act. These WORDS may be KEYWORDS only or even STOPWORDS (i.e., AND, OR, OF,IN etc.).
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