AMENDMENT_20_22121966

PART6.txt

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 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
 
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+233A. Validation of appointments of, and judgments, etc.,
+delivered by, certain district judges.—Notwithstanding any judgment,
+decree or order of any court,—
+(a) (i) no appointment of any person already in the judicial service of
+a State or of any person who has been for not less than seven years an
+advocate or a pleader, to be a district judge in that State, and
+(ii) no posting, promotion or transfer of any such person as a
+district judge,
+made at any time before the commencement of the Constitution (Twentieth
+Amendment) Act, 1966, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions
+of article 233 or article 235 shall be deemed to be illegal or void or ever to
+have become illegal or void by reason only of the fact that such
+appointment, posting, promotion or transfer was not made in accordance
+with the said provisions;
+(b) no jurisdiction exercised, no judgment, decree, sentence or order
+passed or made, and no other act or proceeding done or taken, before the
+commencement of the Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 1966
+by, or before, any person appointed, posted, promoted or transferred as a
+district judge in any State otherwise than in accordance with the
+provisions of article 233 or article 235 shall be deemed to be illegal or
+invalid or ever to have become illegal or invalid by reason only of the
+fact that such appointment, posting, promotion or transfer was not made
+in accordance with the said provisions.
 234. Recruitment of persons other than district judges to the judicial
 service.—Appointments of persons other than district judges to the judicial se
 rvice