Act Number: 28

Act Name: The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000

Year: 2000

Enactment Date: 2000-08-25

Long Title: An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 12: Provisions as to Legislative Assemblies.
    (1) The number of seats as on the appointed day in the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh shall be two hundred and thirty and ninety respectively.
     (2) In the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), under heading “I. States”,—
         (a) entries 5 to 25 shall be renumbered as entries 6 to 26 respectively;
         (b) after entry 4, the following entry shall be inserted, namely :—
             "1 5
             5. Chhattisgarh...90.";
         (c) in entry 13, as so renumbered, for the figures "320", the figures "230" shall be substituted.
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