Section 7
Allocation of sitting members.
The Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960
About this Act
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the State of Bombay and for matters connected therewith.
(1) The twelve sitting members of the Council of States
representing the State of Bombay, whose names are specified in Part I of the Second Schedule, and such
six of the nine sitting members elected to represent that State at the biennial elections held for the purpose
of filling the vacancies existing on the 3rd day of April, 1960, as the Chairman of the Council of States
shall by order specify shall, as from the appointed day, be deemed to have been duly elected to fill
eighteen of the nineteen seats allotted to the State of Maharashtra.
(2) The five sitting members of the Council of States representing the State of Bombay, whose names are specified in Part II of the Second Schedule, and the remaining three of the nine members elected at the said biennial elections shall, as from the appointed day, be deemed to have been duly elected to fill eight of the eleven seats allotted to the State of Gujarat.
(2) The five sitting members of the Council of States representing the State of Bombay, whose names are specified in Part II of the Second Schedule, and the remaining three of the nine members elected at the said biennial elections shall, as from the appointed day, be deemed to have been duly elected to fill eight of the eleven seats allotted to the State of Gujarat.