Important Acts of the Parliament of India Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act was passed on 19th September 2013 and notified on 1st February 2014. The act gave statutory status to the authority, which had earlier been set up by an executive order in 2003 to regulate the pension sector and the National Pension System. The other pairs of years do not match these dates.

Answer: C

The POCSO Act was introduced in 2012. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 is the Indian law that defines offences against children and sets up special courts and child-friendly procedures for trying them. It was passed in 2012 and came into force on 14 November 2012.

2010, 2011 and 2013 are not the year of the Act. The date matters for teachers because the Act places duties on schools to report such offences, so the year is part of the professional knowledge the paper tests.

Answer: A

The minimum age to be President of India is 35 years.

Article 58 also requires the candidate to be a citizen of India, qualified for election to the Lok Sabha, and not holding an office of profit. The same age applies to the Vice-President, while a Governor must be 35 and a member of the Lok Sabha 25.

Answer: B

The Trade Marks Act was enacted in 1999.

It replaced the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958, allowing registration of service marks and collective marks, extending the registration term to ten years, and recognising well-known marks.

Answer: B

The Registration of Births and Deaths Act was enacted in 1969.

It made registration of births and deaths compulsory throughout India, replacing the voluntary scheme of the 1886 Act, and created the office of the Registrar General.

Answer: B

The Agriculturists' Loans Act was enacted in 1884.

A companion to the Land Improvement Loans Act, it provides for short-term taccavi loans to cultivators for seed, cattle and relief in times of scarcity.

Answer: A

Jharkhand was established on 15 November 2000, carved out of the southern districts of Bihar.

The date is the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda. Ranchi is its capital, and it was the last of the three states created in November 2000.

Answer: D

The Government of India Act, 1915 was passed to consolidate the earlier Government of India Acts.

It was a consolidating measure that re-enacted the provisions of the Acts of 1858, 1861, 1892 and 1909 in a single statute, without changing the substance of the constitution then in force.

Answer: D

The Indian Medical Council Act was enacted in 1956.

It reconstituted the Medical Council of India to regulate medical education and maintain the Indian Medical Register. It was repealed in 2019 and replaced by the National Medical Commission Act.

Answer: A

Dr Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India, from 1950 to 1962.

He had presided over the Constituent Assembly, and he remains the only President elected twice. Dr S. Radhakrishnan, his Vice-President, succeeded him.