Act Number: 81

Act Name: The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971

Year: 1971

Enactment Date: 1971-12-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 5: Formation of the State of Meghalaya.
    On and from the appointed day there shall be formed a new State, to be known as the State of Meghalaya, comprising—
         (a) the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the autonomous State of Meghalaya formed under section 3 of the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 (55 of 1969); and
         (b) so much of the territories comprised within the cantonment and municipality of Shillong as did not form part of that autonomous State,
and thereupon the said territotries shall cease to form part of the existing State of Assam.
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