7th November, 2002
Ministry of Law & Justice  


INDIA CODE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERS


The entire India Code, which includes Constitution of India, Manual of Election Laws, Central Acts till date, Index to the Central Acts and Chronological Table, have been made available on NICNET and INTERNET. The website address of India Code is http://indiacode.nic.in .

This is intended to help legal professionals, courts, law students, media, academics, corporate sector and others as a ready reference material on the Constitution and all other Central Laws in the country.

Meanwhile, the old India Code containing Acts of Parliament upto the years 1970 have been updated in 31 volumes. Out of them, 16 volumes have been published and made available for sale and for the use of the public. The remaining volumes are under print.

Annual volumes of Acts of Parliament for the years 1999 and 2000 have been published and for the year 2001 are under print. The pocket size edition of the Constitution of India in diglot form has been published. Modified editions of the Central Acts in diglot form from time to time are also published on public demand.

In the area of maintenance of State Acts, the Legislative Department is compiling the Chronological Table of all the State Acts and Ordinances enacted by the State Governments with their cooperation. This is expected to be placed in electronic form as well as published by the end of current financial year.

 
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