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Section 11: Power to maintain delimitation orders up-to-date.

The Delimitation Act, 2002Central Act · Act 33 of 2002

(1) The Election Commission may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India and in the Official Gazette of the State concerned,--

(a) correct any printing mistake in any of the orders made by the Commission under section 9 or any error arising therein from an inadvertent slip or omission; and

(b) where the boundaries or name of any district or any territorial division mentioned in any of the said orders are or is altered, make such amendments as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for bringing the orders up-to-date, so, however, that the boundaries or areas or extent of any constituency shall not be changed by any such notification.

[Provided that the Election Commission may make such amendments, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient, for bringing the said orders up-to-date by including therein and excluding therefrom the relevant areas, consequent upon the exchange of one hundred and eleven enclaves of India and fifty-one enclaves of Bangladesh with effect from 31st July, 2015, in pursuance of the Constitution (One Hundredth Amendment) Act, 2015].

(2) Every notification under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued, before the House of the People and the Legislative Assembly of the State concerned.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Delimitation Act, 2002
Section11
Marginal notePower to maintain delimitation orders up-to-date.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it2

How this provision has been amended

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  • inserted, Act 10 of 2016. . The proviso ins. by Act 10 of 2016, s. 3 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016).

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