§342 — Scheduled Tribes

(1) The President [may with respect to any State or Union territory, and 1. The words and letters ―specified in Part A and Part B of the First Schedule‖ omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) for ―any such state‖. Subs. by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, s. 10, for ―may, after State,‖ where it is a State *, after consultation with the Governor * thereof,] by public notification , specify the tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribes or tribal communities which shall for the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to that State or Union territory, as the case may be. (2) Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Tribes specified in a notification issued under clause (1) any tribe or tribal community or part of or group within any tribe or tribal community, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification.