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THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT, 1980
No. 65 of 1980
[27th December, 1980]
An Act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases and for matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Short title and extent. 1. (1) This Act may be called the National Security Act, 1980.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Definitions. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
- (a) "appropriate Government” means, as respects a detention order made by the Central Government or a person detained under such order, the Central Government, and as respects a detention order made by a State Government or by an officer subordinate to a State Government or as respects a person detained under such order, the State Government;
- (b) "detention order" means an order made under section 3;
- (c) "foreigner" has the same meaning as in the Foreigners Act, 194631 of 1946.;
- (d) "person includes a foreigner;
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