Annulment in 1911 — Key Changes

Entry	Year	Description	Impact
2 & 3 Geo. V, c.6, ss.1–2	1912	The Government of India Act, 1912 addressed the legal consequences of the new provincial arrangements following the annulment. Section 1 applied the rights, duties and functions of the Madras and Bombay governors and their councils to the Governor of Bengal and his council, subject to express exceptions. Powers reserved by the Governor-General in Council remained with him. Section 2 applied the 1909 Act’s provision for constituting an executive council to Bihar and Orissa. The Act received assent on 25 June 1912; it was subsequent legislation, not the 1911 announcement itself.	This distinction turns the chronology into an explanation: a political announcement, territorial proclamations and statutory adjustment perform different tasks. The 1912 Act’s preamble refers to the proclamations of 22 March 1912; its operative sections supplied the corresponding governmental powers. Bengal’s new governor did not thereby become independent of the imperial executive, and the statute did not introduce elected ministerial responsibility. Use the amendment to explain how the annulment was followed by a revised administrative structure, while keeping the date of announcement separate from the dates of the implementing measures.