(1) This Regulation may be called the North-East Frontier Agency (Administration) Supplementary Regulation, 1971.
(2) It extends to the whole of the North-East Frontier Agency.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Short title, extent and commencement.
(685 ) 686 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II— Definitions, Constitution of Pradesh Council and its composition.
Cesser of membership in certain cases.
Disqualifications lor nominated membership.
2. In this Regulation,—
(w) "Administrator" means the Governor of Assam acting as the agent of the President for the administration of the North-East Frontier Agency under sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 18 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution;
(b) "Agency Council" means the Agency Council constituted under section 57 of the North-East Frontier Agency Panchayat Raj Regulation, 1967 and functioning immediately before the commencement of this Regulation;
(c) "North-East Frontier Agency" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the North-East Frontier Areas (Administration) Regulation, 1954;
(d) "Pradesh Council" means the Pradesh Council constituted under section 3;
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation;
(f) "Zilla Parishad" means a Zilla Parishad constituted under section 51 of the North-East Frontier Agency Panchayat Raj Regulation, 1967.
CHAPTER II PRADESH COUNCIL
3. As soon as may be after the commencement of this Regulation, there shall be constituted a Pradesh Council for the North-East Frontier Agency consisting of—
(a) the member of the House of the People representing the North-East Frontier Agency;
(b) the Vice-Presidents of all the Zilla Parishads;
(c) three representatives from each of the Zilla Parishads to be elected by the members thereof from amongst themselves in the prescribed manner;
(d) three persons to be nominated by the Administrator to provide representation for such tribes or communities as have not obtained any representation in the Council by virtue of the foregoing clauses.
4. A person who becomes a member of the Pradesh Council by virtue of clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c) of section 3 shall cease to be such member when he ceases to be a member of the House of the People, or a Vice-President of a Zilla Parishad or a member of the Zilla Parishad, as the case may be.
5. A person shall be disqualified for being nominated as a member of the Pradesh Council under clause (d) of section 3 and for being a member of the Pradesh Council if he has incurred or incurs any of the disqualifications specified in section 7 of the North-East Frontier Agency Panchayat Raj Regulation, 1907.
3 of 1967.
1 of 1954.
3 of 1967.
3 of 1967.
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6. The Pradesh Council, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for three years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer, and the expiration of the said period of three years shall operate as a dissolution of the Pradesh Council:
Provided that the said period may, while a Proclamation of Emergency issued under clause (1) of article 352 of the Constitution is in operation, be extended by the Administrator, with the approval of the President, by order, for a period not exceeding one year at a time and not extending in any case beyond a period of six months after the Proclamation has ceased to operate.