Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960
No: 11 Dated: Apr, 25 1960
THE BOMBAY REORGANISATION ACT, 1960
ACT NO. 11 OF 1960
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the State of Bombay and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appointed day” means the 1st day of May, 1960;
(b) “article” means an article of the Constitution;
(c) “assembly constituency”, “council constituency” and “parliamentary constituency” have the same meaning as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);
(d) “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 State of Bombay;
(e) “notified order” means an order published in the Official Gazette;
(f) “population ratio”, in relation to the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat, means the ratio of 66.31 to 33.69;
(g) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the State of Bombay, means a person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House;
(h) “transferred territory” means the territories which, as from the appointed day, are the territories of the State of Gujarat;
(i) “treasury” includes a sub-treasury;
(j) any reference to a district, taluka, village or other territorial division of the State of Bombay shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division as recognised for land revenue purposes on the 1st day of December, 1959.
PART II
REORGANISATION OF BOMBAY STATE
3. Formation of Gujarat State.—(1) As from the appointed day, there shall be formed a new State to be known as the State of Gujarat comprising the following territories of the State of Bombay, namely:—
(a) Banaskantha, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Ahmedabad, Kaira, Panch-mahals, Baroda, Broach, Surat, Dangs, Amreli, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Kutch districts; and
(b) the villages in Umbergaon taluka of Thana district, the villages in Nawapur and Nandurbar talukas of West Khandesh district and the villages in Akkalkuwa and Taloda talukas of West Khandesh district, respectively specified in Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule; and thereupon, the said territories shall cease to form part of the State of Bombay, and the residuary State of Bombay shall be known as the State of Maharashtra.
(2) The villages in Umbergaon taluka specified in Part I of the First Schedule shall form a separate taluka of the same name and be included in Surat district, and the remaining villages in the said taluka shall be included in, and form part of, Dahanu taluka of Thana district; and the villages specified in Parts II and III of the First Schedule shall respectively be included in, and form part of, Songadh taluka of Surat district and Sagbara taluka of Broach district.