and Commencement, Authoritative Texts and Repeals Part XXII

You file a consumer complaint and it goes to a commission, not to the High Court. You read a notice in Hindi and an Act in English. You hear that the President cannot be arrested while in office, and wonder what rule lets that be true. All of these are answered not in the famous Parts of the Constitution but in the last, plainer ones. This topic walks through Tribunals (Part XIVA), Official Language (Part XVII), Miscellaneous (Part XIX), and the closing Part XXII that says when the Constitution began and what it replaced.

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The closing Parts of the Constitution set up tribunals outside the ordinary courts, fix the languages of government, give limited protections to high officers, and state that the Constitution began on 26 January 1950 and repealed the Government of India Act, 1935.

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