Amendment & Miscellaneous
No Parliament Act on Naga religious/social practices, customary law, related civil/criminal justice, or land ownership applies to Nagaland unless its own Legislative Assembly agrees by resolution. The Governor has special law-and-order responsibility (exercised in individual judgment) for as long as needed, and a special 35-member Tuensang regional council structure governs that district's distinct transitional administration, with specific adapted Assembly composition and election rules.
This gives Nagaland one of the strongest degrees of protected legal and cultural autonomy of any Indian state - Naga customary law, land ownership, and social practices are specifically shielded from automatic central legislative override, requiring the state's own Assembly's consent, reflecting Nagaland's distinct tribal identity and the unique political history of its integration into India after a long period of insurgency and negotiation.
This is why a Parliament law dealing with, say, land ownership rules cannot simply apply to Nagaland the way it would to most other states - it needs the Nagaland Legislative Assembly's own specific resolution agreeing to adopt it, protecting Naga customary land practices from unilateral central override.