Section 18
Parliamentary constituency of the Union territory of Mizoram.
The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971
About this Act
An Act to 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 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 (43 of 1951) shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to such
election.