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India: Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster (Processing of Claims) Act, 1985*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Legislation and Regulations
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1986

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[Reproduced from the text, as passed by the Rajya Sabha on March 18, 1985, which was appended to the complaint filed by the Union of India against Union Carbide Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, April 8, 1985.The Act was assented to by the President of India and came into force on March 29, 1985.

[The Opinion of the U.S. District Court with regard to this case, rendered on May 12, 1986, appears at I.L.M. page 771.]

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* [I.L.M. could not obtain aclear copy of the text of this paragraph prior to presstime.It appears that the paragraph reads as follows: (1) In computing, under the Limitation Act, 1963 or any other law for the time being inforce, the period of limitation for the purpose of instituting asuit or other proceeding for the enforcement of aclaim, any period after the date on which such claimis registered under, and in accordance with, the provisions of the Scheme shall be excluded.]