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Section 29: Special provision for elections to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956Central Act · Act 37 of 1956

When a general election is next held in the State of Andhra Pradesh for electing members to the House of the People, elections shall also be held to fill the seats allotted to the assembly constituencies into which the transferred territory in that State is divided in the order referred to in sub-section (2) of section 47, as if those seats had become vacant; and as from the date appointed under the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951) as the date before which the said elections shall be completed, all the persons who, having been sitting members of the Legislative Assembly of Hyderabad, become on the appointed day members of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh under sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) of section 28 of this Act shall cease to be such members.

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ActThe States Reorganisation Act, 1956
Section29
Marginal noteSpecial provision for elections to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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