Keyword(s):
Administrator, Article, Assembly Constituency, Delimitation Commission,
Existing State of Punjab, Law, Population Ratio, Sitting Member, State of
Punjab, Successor State, Transferred Territory, Treasury
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of
Punjab and for matters connected therewith,
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the
Repnblic of India as follows :–
PART I
I. Short title.-This Act Inay be called the Punjab
Reorganisation Act, 1966.
I
- Definitions.–In this Act, unless the context otherwise I
requires,– I
(a) “Administrator” means the administrator of a Union territory 1
appointed by the President under article 239 of the
Constitution;
(h) “appointed day” means the lst day of November, 1966;
(c) “article” means an article of the Constitution;
(4 “assembly constituency”, “council constituency” and
“parliamentary constituency” have tlie same meanings as in
the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);
(e) “Delimitation Commission” means the Delimitation
Commission constituted under section 3 of the Delimitation
Commission Act, 1962 (1 of 1962); - The Act as printed here is as passed by the Parliame~lt in 1966, and for Statement of
objects and Reasons See Govt. of India Gazette 3.9.1966 Part-I1 see 2 Extra, P. ,
804 and for its Hindi text see RHP Extra., dated 22-7-89 P 1772.
“existing State of Punjab” means the State of Punjab as
existing immediately before the appointed day;
(g) “law” includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order,
bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument . having, immediately before the appointed day, of the force of
law in the whole or in any part of the existing state of Punjab;
(11) “notified order” means an order published in the Official
Gazette;
(i) “population ratio”, in relation to the States of Haryana and
Punjab and the union, means the ration of 37.38 to 54.84 to
7.78;
(j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(k) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or
of the Legislature of the existing State of Punjab, means a
person who immediately beforc the appointed day is a
member of that House;
(I) “State of Punjab” means the State with the same name,
comprising the territories referred to in sub-section (1) of
section 6;
(m) “successor state”, in relation to the existing State of Punjab
means the State of Punjab or Haryana, and includes also the
Union in relation to the Union rerritory of Chandigarh and the
transferred territory; ,
(n) “transferred territory” means the territory which on the
appointed day is transferred from the existing State of Punjab
to the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh;
(0) “treasury” includes a sub-treasury; and
(p) any reference to a district, tehsil or other territorial division df
the existing State of Punjab shall be construed as a reference
to the area comprised within that territorial division on the lSt
day of July, 1966.
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