Act Number: 31

Act Name: The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966

Year: 1966

Enactment Date: 1966-09-18

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

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 13: Provisions as to Legislative Assemblies.
    (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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