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Article 394 — This article and articles 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 324, 366, 367, 379, 380, 388, 391, 392 and 393 shall come into forceat once, and the remaining provisions of this Constitutionshall come into force on the twenty-sixth day of January,1950, which day is referred to in this Constitution as thecommencement of this Constitution.

Article
394
Chapter
CHAPTER I.—L ANGUAGE OF THE UNION
Index row title
This article and articles 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 324, 366, 367, 379, 380, 388, 391, 392 and 393 shall come into forceat once, and the remaining provisions of this Constitutionshall come into force on the twenty-sixth day of January,1950, which day is referred to in this Constitution as thecommencement of this Constitution.
Source document
India Constitution
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1ec834a5-6119-4ff9-bf93-db847cdd58dd

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Verbatim text

367, 379, 380, 388, 391, 392 and 393 shall come into forceat once, and the remaining provisions of this Constitutionshall come into force on the twenty-sixth day of January,1950, which day is referred to in this Constitution as thecommencement of this Constitution. 2[394A. (1) The President shall cause to be published under his authority,— (a) the translation of this Constitution in the Hindi language, signed by the members of the ConstituentAssembly, with such modifications as may benecessary to bring it in conformity with the language,style and terminology adopted in the authoritativetexts of Central Acts in the Hindi language, andincorporating therein all the amendments of thisConstitution made before such publication; and (b) the translation in the Hindi language of every amendment of this Constitution made in the Englishlanguage. (2) The translation of this Constitution and of every amendment thereof published under clause (1) shall beconstrued to have the same meaning as the originalthereof and if any difficulty arises in so construing anypart of such translation, the President shall cause thesame to be revised suitably. (3) The translation of this Constitution and of every amendment thereof published under this article shall be 267Short title. Commencement. Authoritative text in the Hindilanguage. 1Ins. by the Constitution (Fifty-eighth Amendment) Act, 1987, s. 2. 2Ins. by s. 3, ibid. deemed to be, for all purposes, the authoritative text thereof in the Hindi language.]

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  • The index files this text under article 394 of the Constitution of India.
  • The index files it under the chapter heading “CHAPTER I.—L ANGUAGE OF THE UNION”.
  • The row is titled “This article and articles 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 324, 366, 367, 379, 380, 388, 391, 392 and 393 shall come into forceat once, and the remaining provisions of this Constitutionshall come into force on the twenty-sixth day of January,1950, which day is referred to in this Constitution as thecommencement of this Constitution.”.
  • The passage runs to about 227 words.

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