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  "act_title": "The Bangladesh Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975",
  "act_no": "XIII",
  "act_year": "1975",
  "publication_date": "19/07/2025",
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    {
      "section_content": "1. (1) This Act may be called theBangladesh Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975.(2) It shall be deemed to have taken effect on the 25th day of January, 1975."
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      "section_content": "2. In theCadet College Ordinance, 1964(E. P. Ordinance II of 1964), in section 4A, in clause (a), for the words and comma “Prime Minister, Government” the word “President” shall be substituted."
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      "section_content": "3. In theBangladesh Special (Remuneration and Privileges) Order, 1972(P. O. No. 49 of 1972),-(a) \tin the preamble, in the first paragraph, for the words “Ministers of the Cabinet” the words “Members of the Council of Ministers” shall be substituted; and(b)\tin Article 2, for clause (b) the following shall be substituted, namely:-“(b)\t“Minister” means a member of the Council of Ministers and includes a Minister of State and a Deputy Minister but does not include the Prime Minister;”."
    },
    {
      "section_content": "4. In theBangladesh (Whips) Order, 1972(P. O. No. 64 of 1972),-(a)\tin Article 3, in clause (4), for the words “Prime Minister” the word “President” shall be substituted; and(b)\tArticle 6 shall be omitted."
    },
    {
      "section_content": "5. In theBangladesh (Freedom Fighters) Welfare Trust Order, 1972(P. O. No. 94 of 1972), in Article 7, in clause (1), in sub-clause (a), the words “nominated by the Prime Minister” shall be omitted."
    },
    {
      "section_content": "6. In the Bangladesh Local Government (Union Parishad and Paurashava) Order, 1973 (P. O. No. 22 of 1973), in the preamble,-(a)\tthe first paragraph shall be omitted; and(b)\tin the second paragraph, the word “AND” shall be omitted."
    },
    {
      "section_content": "7. In thePublic Servants (Retirement) Act, 1974(XII of 1974), in section 5, in sub-section (3), for the words “Prime Minister” the word “President” shall be substituted."
    },
    {
      "section_content": "8. The Political Parties Act, 1962 (III of 1962), the Representation of the People (Supplementary) Order, 1973 (P. O. No. 8 of 1973), and the Bangladesh Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 1975 (Ord. No. XIII of 1975), are hereby repealed."
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  ],
  "footnotes": [],
  "copyright_info": {
    "copyright_text": "Copyright©2019, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs DivisionMinistry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs"
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