Title: India Code

Source/Sponsoring Agency: India. Legislative Department; India. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

URL: http://indiacode.nic.in/

Date Checked: 3/3/2010      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 3/3/2010

Topics: Foreign Law

Other keywords: Legislation; Law (India); India

Contents: India Code is a project of India’s Legislative Department that provides access to the acts of India’s Parliament from 1836 to the present. The purpose of the site is threefold: 1) inform the drafters of new legislation; 2) assist government officials in carrying out their duties; and 3) provide access to updated law for lawyers and the general public. The website is updated with acts from 2010. Users can search for acts by their short title, number, or objective, or browse acts by year. Users can also keyword search the text of the acts, but advanced search features such as Boolean terms are not available. Clicking on the search result leads to the section headings of the act. This option is not recommended, because clicking on the section provides the user with the section heading, which is corrupted by additional symbols between the letters, making the text very difficult to read. The better option is to click on “Download full act” from the bottom of the search result. If you have executed a keyword search, the relevant terms in the act will not be differentiated by highlighted or bold text, but you can perform a “find” search in the Web browser to locate the terms in the act. Two nice features of the website are the Word documents listing all the acts in chronological and alphabetical order. The site also provides links to other Indian government sites, including the Indian courts, the Legislative Department, and the Department of Delhi Prisons (a few of the links are not working), as well as to India’s Constitution. The site also provides minimal access to acts in Hindi for 2002-2007 by clicking on the link INDIACODE in Hindi. India Code provides good access to Indian acts in English and can be used as a portal to other Indian government information.

Author of Annotation: I. Haight