Act Number: 11

Act Name: The Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960

Year: 1960

Enactment Date: 1960-04-25

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

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 71: Amendment of Act 64 of 1950.
    In the Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950,—
         (1) in section 47A,—
             (a) in sub-section (1),—
                 (i) for the words, letters and figures, "the whole or any part of a State in respect of which a Corporation was, immediately before the 1st day of November, 1956", the words "or any other enactment relating to reorganisation of States, the whole or any part of a State in respect of which a Corporation was, immediately before the day on which the reorganisation takes place", shall be substituted;
                 (ii) in the Explanation, for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
                     "(i) in relation to the Bombay State Road Transport Corporation, shall mean the Government of the State of Maharashtra or of Gujarat as formed under the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960;";
             (b) in sub-section (3), in clause (f), after "the words and figures the States Reorganisation Act, 1956", the words "or any other enactment relating to reorganisation of States" shall be inserted;
     (2) after section 47A, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—
             "48. Transitional provision relating to Bombay State Road Transport Corporation.—Notwithstanding anything contained in section 47A, it shall be lawful for the Government of the State of Bombay to frame a scheme under sub-section (1) thereof and forward the same to the Central Government before the 1st day of May, 1960, and in such a case, the power conferred on the Central Government to make an order under sub-section (2) thereof may be exercised before that day but no order so made shall take effect till that day.".
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