REGISTERED No. D-(DN)-127 The Gazette of India EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 49] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1987/BHADRA 24, 1909 Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 15th September, 1987/Bhadra 24, 1909 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 15th September, 1987, and is hereby published for general information : — THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1987 No. 38 of 1987 [15th September, 1987.]
An Act further to amend the Representation of the People Act, 195 Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
1. (2) This Act may be called the Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Act, 1987.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In the Representation of the People Act, 1950, after section 9 and before the sub-heading "The State Legislative Councils'1, the following section shall be inserted, namely: — '9A. (2) As soon as may be after the coming into force of the Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Act, 1987, the Short title and commencement.
Amendment of Act 43 of 1950.
Power of Election ( 1 ) 2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART H—SEC. 1) Election Commission shall, having regard to the provisions of the Constitution and the principle specified in clause (d) of sub-section
(1) of section 9 of the Delimitation Act, 1972, determine the assembly constituencies in the States of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland in which seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes.
(2) The Ejection Commission shall,—
(a) publish its proposals under sub-section (1) with respect to any State in the Official Gazette and also in such other manner as it thinks fit;
(b) specify a date on or after which the proposals will be further considered by it;
(c) consider all objections and suggestions which may have been received by it before the date so specified;
(d) hold, for the purpose of such consideration, if it thinks fit so to do, one or more public sittings at such place or places in such State as it thinks fit;
(e) after considering all objections and suggestions whih may have been received by it before the date so specified, determine, by order, the assembly constituency or constituencies in the State in which seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes and cause such order to be published in the Official Gazette; and, upon such publication, the order shall have the full force of law and shall not be called in question in any court and the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order^ 1976, or, as the case may be, the Mizoram (Delimitation of Assembly Constituencies) Order, 1986 shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly.
(3) Every order made under sub-section (2) shall, as soon as may be after it is published under that sub-section, be laid before the Legislative Assembly of the State concerned.
Explanation For the purposes of this section^ "assembly consituency" means,—
(a) in relation to the States of Meghalaya and Nagaland, the assembly constituencies in those States as specified in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976; and
(b) in relation to the State of Mizoram, the assembly constituencies as specified in the Mizoram (Delimitation of Assembly Constituencies) Order, 1986.'.
S. RAMAIAH.
Secy, to the Govt, of India.
Commission U> deters mine the constituencies to be reserved for Scheduled Tribes in certain States.
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