Section 13

Provisions as to Legislative Assemblies.

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966

  • Act 31 of 1966
  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
About this Act

An Act to provide for the Reorganisation of the existing State of Punjab and for matters connected therewith.

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    (1) The number of seats as on the appointed day in the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Haryana and Punjab and the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh shall be fifty-four, eighty-seven and fifty-six respectively.
     (2) In the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950)—
         (a) after entry 4, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—
             “4A. Haryana . . . 54”;
         (b) in entry 11, for the figures “154”, the figures “87” shall be substituted; and
         (c) in entry 16, for the figures “40”, the figures “54” shall be substituted.

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