#DidYouKnow? The Indian Independence Act of 1947 codified British withdrawal from #Bharat & creation of two independent nations.
Comprising 22 pages, and organized around 20 sections & III schedules, it set the historic 15 Aug 1947 as the date of our independence🇮🇳!
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![MainBharatHoon - सत्यमेव जयते Ministry of Culture Government of India Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Indian Independence Act , 1947 . AN ACT TO 10 & 11 GEO . 6 . Indian Independence Act , 1947- CII . 30 Le Roy le veult . Make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions , to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act , 1935 , which apply outside those Dominions , and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions . Chapter 30 . 18th July 1947 . CHAPTER 30 . An Act to make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions , to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act , 1935 , which apply outside those Dominions , and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions . BE [ 18th July 1947. ] E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows : - 1 ( 1 ) As from the fifteenth day of August , nineteen hundred The new and forty - seven , two independent Dominions shall be set up in Dominions . India , to be known respectively as India and Pakistan . ( 2 ) The said Dominions are hereafter in this Act referred to as the new Dominions , and the said fifteenth day of August is hereafter in this Act referred to as the appointed day .. 2- ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) Territories of of this section , the territories of India shall be the territories under the new Dominions , the sovereignty of His Majesty which , immediately before the appointed day , were included in British India except the terri- tories which , under subsection ( 2 ) of this section , are to be the territories of Pakistan . ( 2 ) Subject to the provisions of subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) of this section , the territories of Pakistan shall be- ( a ) the territories which , on the appointed day , are included in the Provinces of East Bengal and West Punjab , as constituted under the two following sections #ThisDayThat Year | 18 July 1947 The Indian Independence Act received the royal assent amritmahotsav.nic.in | @O I - ShareChat](https://cdn4.sharechat.com/bd5223f_s1w/compressed_gm_40_img_248379_25ca42e5_1721273246214_sc.jpg?tenant=sc&referrer=pwa-sharechat-service&f=214_sc.jpg "MainBharatHoon - सत्यमेव जयते Ministry of Culture Government of India Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Indian Independence Act , 1947 . AN ACT TO 10 & 11 GEO . 6 . Indian Independence Act , 1947- CII . 30 Le Roy le veult . Make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions , to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act , 1935 , which apply outside those Dominions , and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions . Chapter 30 . 18th July 1947 . CHAPTER 30 . An Act to make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions , to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act , 1935 , which apply outside those Dominions , and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions . BE [ 18th July 1947. ] E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows : - 1 ( 1 ) As from the fifteenth day of August , nineteen hundred The new and forty - seven , two independent Dominions shall be set up in Dominions . India , to be known respectively as India and Pakistan . ( 2 ) The said Dominions are hereafter in this Act referred to as the new Dominions , and the said fifteenth day of August is hereafter in this Act referred to as the appointed day .. 2- ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) Territories of of this section , the territories of India shall be the territories under the new Dominions , the sovereignty of His Majesty which , immediately before the appointed day , were included in British India except the terri- tories which , under subsection ( 2 ) of this section , are to be the territories of Pakistan . ( 2 ) Subject to the provisions of subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) of this section , the territories of Pakistan shall be- ( a ) the territories which , on the appointed day , are included in the Provinces of East Bengal and West Punjab , as constituted under the two following sections #ThisDayThat Year | 18 July 1947 The Indian Independence Act received the royal assent amritmahotsav.nic.in | @O I - ShareChat")