Andhra Pradesh and Mysore (Transfer of Territory) Act, 1968
No: 36 Dated: Aug, 22 1968
THE ANDHRA PRADESH AND MYSORE (TRANSFER OF TERRITORY) ACT, 1968
ACT NO. 36 OF 1968
An Act to provide for the transfer of certain territory from the State of Mysore to the State of Andhra Pradesh and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh and Mysore (Transfer of Territory) Act, 1968.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appointed day” means the 1st day of October, 1968;
(b) “assembly constituency”, “council constituency” and “parliamentary constituency” have the same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);
(c) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State, means a person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House;
(d) “transferred territory” means the territory specified in the Schedule and transferred from the State of Mysore to the State of Andhra Pradesh by section 3.
3. Transfer of territory from Mysore to Andhra Pradesh.—(1) As from the appointed day, there shall be added to the State of Andhra Pradesh the territory specified in the Schedule which shall thereupon cease to form part of the State of Mysore.
(2) The transferred territory shall be included in, and form part of the Hindupur taluk of Anantapur district in the State of Andhra Pradesh. (3) Nothing in sub-section (2) shall be deemed to affect the power of the State Government to alter, after the appointed day, the name, extent or boundaries of any district or taluk in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
4. Amendment of First Schedule to the Constitution.—As from the appointed day, in the First Schedule to the Constitution, under the heading “I. THE STATES”,—
(a) for the entry against “I. Andhra Pradesh”, the following shall be substituted, namely:—
“The territories specified in sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Andhra State Act, 1953, sub-section (1) of section 3 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, the First Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959, and the Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Mysore (Transfer of Territory) Act, 1968, but excluding the territories specified in the Second Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959.”; and
(b) in the entry against “9. Mysore”, after the words and figures “States Reorganisation Act, 1956”, the words, brackets and figures “but excluding the territory specified in the Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Mysore (Transfer of Territory) Act, 1968” shall be inserted.
5. Extent of parliamentary and assembly Constituencies.—As from the appointed day, the transferred territory shall cease to be part of Madhugiri parliamentary constituency and Bagepalli assembly constituency in the State of Mysore as delimited in Order No. 11 of the Delimitation Commission made under section 10 of the Delimitation Commission Act, 1962 (61 of 1962), and shall form part of Hindupur parliamentary constituency and Hindupur assembly constituency in the State of Andhra Pradesh as delimited in Order No. 3 of the Delimitation Commission made under the said section.