Act 20 of 1963

The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963

An Act to provide for Legislative Assemblies and Councils of Ministers for certain Union territories and for certain other matters.

  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
  • Enacted 1963-05-10
  • 70 sections
SectionTitle
1 Short title and commencement. Read
2 Definitions and interpretation. Read
3 Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition. Read
4 Qualification for membership of Legislative Assembly. Read
5 Duration of Legislative Assemblies. Read
6 Sessions of Legislative Assembly, prorogation and dissolution. Read
7 Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly. Read
8 Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration. Read
9 Right of Administrator to address and send messages to Legislative Assembly. Read
10 Rights of Ministers as respects Legislative Assembly. Read
11 Oath or affirmation by members. Read
12 Voting in Assembly, power of Assembly to act notwithstanding vacancies and quorum. Read
13 Vacation of seats. Read
14 Disqualifications for membership. Read
14A Disqualification on ground of defection for being a member. Read
15 Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified. Read
16 Powers, privileges, etc., of members. Read
17 Salaries and allowances of members. Read
18 Extent of legislative power. Read
19 Exemption of property of the Union from taxation. Read
20 Restrictions or laws passed by Legislative Assembly with respect to certain matters. Read
21 Inconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by Legislative Assembly. Read
22 Sanction of the Administrator required for certain legislative proposals. Read
23 Special provisions as to financial Bills. Read
24 Procedure as to lapsing of Bills. Read
25 Assent to Bills. Read
25A Bills reserved for consideration. Read
26 Requirements as to sanctions andrecommendations to be regarded as matters of procedure only. Read
27 Annual financial statement. Read
28 Procedure in Legislative Assembly with respect to estimates. Read
29 Appropriation Bills. Read
30 Supplementary, additional or excess grants. Read
31 Votes on account. Read
32 Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by Legislative Assembly. Read
33 Rules of procedure. Read
34 Official language or languages of Union territory and language or languages to be used in Legislative Assemblythereof. Read
35 Language to be used for Acts, Bills, etc. Read
36 Restriction on discussion in the Legislative Assembly. Read
37 Courts not to inquire into proceedings of Legislative Assembly. Read
38 Definitions. Read
39 Assembly constituencies. Read
40 Representation of Pondicherry in the House of the People. Read
41 Duties of Delimitation Commission. Read
42 Associate members. Read
43 Procedure as to delimitation. Read
43A Special provision for delimitation of constituencies of Mizoram Legislative Assembly. Read
43B Representation of Arunachal Pradesh in the House of the People. Read
43C Special provisions for delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in Arunachal Pradesh and constituencies of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Read
43D Special provision for determination of constituencies in the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Read
43E Special provisions as to readjustment of territorial constituencies. Read
43F Special provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies on the basis of 2001 census. Read
44 Council of Ministers. Read
45 Other provisions as to Ministers. Read
46 Conduct of business. Read
47 Consolidated Fund of the Union territory. Read
47A Public Account of the Union territory and moneys credited to it. Read
48 Contingency Fund of the Union territory. Read
48A Borrowing upon the security of the Consolidated Fund of the Union territory. Read
48B Form of accounts of the Union territory. Read
49 Audit reports. Read
50 Relation of Administrator and his Ministers to President. Read
51 Provision in case of failure of constitutional machinery. Read
52 Authorisation of expenditure by President. Read
53 Provisions for election to Parliament from Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry. Read
54 Transitional provisions for administration of justice in certain areas in the Union territory of Mizoram. Read
54A Provision as to provisional Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh. Read
55 Contracts and suits. Read
56 Power of President to remove difficulties. Read
57 Amendment to certain enactments. Read
58 Repeal and savings. Read
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