North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 - Assam/Northeast Polity Notes
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On 21 January 1972, the North East Reorganization Act 1972 provide for the establishment of the States of Manipur and Tripura and to provide for the formation of the State of Meghalaya and of the Union territories of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh by reorganisation of the existing State of Assam and for matters connected therewith.
- The High Court of Assam and Nagaland shall cease to function and is hereby abolished;
- There shall be a common High Court for the States of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura to be called the Gauhati High Court (the High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura);
- The Judges of the High Court of Assam and Nagaland holding office immediately before that day shall, unless they have elected otherwise, become on that day the Judges of the common High Court.
- The common High Court shall have, in respect of the territories comprised in the States of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura, all such jurisdiction, powers and authority as under the law in force immediately before the appointed day, are exercisable in respect of those territories by the High Court of Assam and Nagaland or the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for Manipur, or the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for Tripura, as the case may be.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF MANIPUR
There shall be established a new State, to be known as the State of Manipur, comprising the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the Union territory of Manipur.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF TRIPURA
There shall be established a new State, to be known as the State of Tripura, comprising the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the Union territory of Tripura.
There shall be formed a new State, to be known as the State of Meghalaya, comprising – (a) the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the autonomous State of Meghalaya formed undersection 3-of the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969-; and (b) so much of the territories comprised within the cantonment and municipality of Shillong as did not form part of that autonomous State, and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Assam.
There shall be formed a new Union territory, to be known as the Union territory of Mizoram, comprising the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the Mizo District in the existing State of Assam and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Assam.
On and from the appointed day7there shall be formed a new Union territory, to be known as the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh, comprising the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the tribal areas specified in Part B of the table appended to paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution (but excluding the areas covered by notification No. TAD/R/35/50/109, dated the 23rd February, 1951 issued by the Governor of Assam under the proviso to sub-paragraph (3) of the said paragraph 20) and known as the North-East Frontier Agency and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Assam. The whole of the Union territory of Mizoram shall form one parliamentary constituency to be called the Mizoram parliamentary constituency and as soon as may be after the appointed day election shall be held to the House of the People to elect a representative from that constituency, as if the seat of the member elected to the House of the People from that constituency has become vacant and the provisions of section 149 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951-shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to such election.
The sitting member nominated to fill the seat allotted in the House of the People to the Tribal Areas of Assam specified in Part B of the Table appended to paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, known as the North-East Frontier Agency, shall, and from the appointed day, be deemed to have been nominated to fill the seat allotted to the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh in the House of the People. (1) On and from the appointed day, the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam, to be filled by persons chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies, shall be reduced from one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and fourteen; and every sitting member of that Legislative Assembly representing a constituency which ceases to be a constituency in the State of Assam by virtue of the provisions of sub-section (5) shall, as from the appointed day, cease to be a member of that Legislative Assembly. (2) The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Manipur, to be constituted at any time after the appointed day, to be filled by persons chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies shall be sixty, out of which one seat shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and nineteen seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. (3) The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tripura, to be constituted at any time after the appointed day to be filled by persons chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies shall be sixty, out of which six seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and nineteen seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. (4) The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Meghalaya, to be constituted at any time after the appointed day, to be filled by persons chosen bydirect election from territorial constituencies shall be sixty out of which fifty seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. (5) On and from the appointed day. Part B of Schedule II to the Delimination of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1966 shall stand amended as directed in the First Schedule.FORMATION OF THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA
FORMATION OF THE UNION TERRITORY OF MIZORAM
FORMATION OF THE UNION TERRITORY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH
PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY OF THE UNION TERRITORY OF MIZORAM
PROVISION AS TO THE MEMBER TO REPRESENT ARUNACHAL PRADESH IN THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE
ALLOCATION OF SEATS IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES
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