Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, 2014
No: 6 Dated: Mar, 01 2014
Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, 2014
(Act No. 6 of 2014)
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "appointed day" means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
(b) "article" means an article of the Constitution;
(c) "assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);
(d) "Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324;
(e) "existing State of Andhra Pradesh" means the State of Andhra Pradesh as existing immediately before the appointed day;
(f) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in the whole or in any part of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh;
(g) "notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette;
(h) "population ratio", in relation to the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, means the ratio of 58.32 : 41.68 as per 2011 Census;
(i) "sitting member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh, means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House;
(j) "successor State", in relation to the existing State of Andhra Pradesh, means the State of Andhra Pradesh or the State of Telangana, as the case may be;
(k) "transferred territory" means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the existing State of Andhra Pradesh to the State of Telangana;
(l) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury; and
(m) any reference to a district, mandal, tehsil, taluk or other territorial division of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division on the appointed day.
PART II
REORGANISATION OF THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH
3. Formation of Telangana State.—On and from the appointed day, there shall be formed a new State to be known as the State of Telangana comprising the following territories of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh, namely:—
Adilabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Nizamabad, Warangal, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, [Khammam (but excluding the Mandals of Kukunoor, Velairpadu and Bhurgampadu but not including its revenue villages of Pinapaka, Morampalli Banzar, Bhurgampad, Nagineniprolu, Krishnasagar, Tekula, Sarapaka, Iravendi, Mothepattinagar, Uppusaka, Sompalli and Nakripeta under the Palvancha Revenue Division, and the Mandals of Chintoor, Kunavaram, Vararamachandrapuram and Bhadrachalam but not including the revenue village of Bhadrachalam under the Bhadrachalam Revenue Division)] and Hyderabad districts,
and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh
4. State of Andhra Pradesh and territorial divisions thereof.––On and from the appointed day, the State of Andhra Pradesh shall comprise the territories of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh other than those specified in section 3.