Section 7
Formation of the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh.
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.
On and from the appointed day there
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.