Section 13:
Allocation of sitting members.
(1) Every sitting member of the Legislative Assembly of the
existing State of Madhya Pradesh elected to fill a seat in that Assembly from a constituency which on the
appointed day by virtue of the provisions of section 10 stands allotted, with or without alteration of
boundaries, to the State of Chhattisgarh shall, on and from that day, cease to be a member of the
Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh and shall be deemed to have been elected to fill a seat in the
Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh from that constituency so allotted.
(2) All other sitting members of the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh
shall continue to be members of the Legislative Assembly of that State and any such sitting member
representing a constituency the extent, or the name and extent of which are altered by virtue of the
provisions of section 9 shall be deemed to have been elected to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya
Pradesh by that constituency as so altered.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Legislative
Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh shall be deemed to be duly constituted on the appointed
day.
(4) The sitting member of the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh
nominated to that Assembly under Article 333 to represent the Anglo-Indian community shall be deemed
to have been nominated to represent the said community in the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh
under that Article.