State of Mizoram Act, 1986
No: 34 Dated: Aug, 14 1986
THE STATE OF MIZORAM ACT, 1986
ACT NO. 34 OF 1986
An Act to provide for the establishment of the State of Mizoram and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title.—This Act may be called the State of Mizoram Act, 1986.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Administrator” means the administrator appointed by the President under Article 239 of the Constitution;
(b) “appointed day” means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
(c) “article” means an article of the Constitution;
(d) “Election Commission” means the Election Commission appointed by the President under Article 324;
(e) “existing Union territory of Mizoram” means the Union territory of Mizoram 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 any part of the existing Union territory of Mizoram;
(g) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislative Assembly of the existing Union territory of Mizoram, means a person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House or that Assembly;
(h) “treasury” includes a sub-treasury.
PART II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF MIZORAM
3. Establishment of the State of Mizoram.—On and from the appointed day, there shall be established a new State, to be known as the State of Mizoram, comprising the territories which immediately before that day were comprised in the existing Union territory of Mizoram.
4. [Amendment of First Schedule to the Constitution].—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 2001 (30 of 2001), s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 3-9-2001).
PART III
REPRESENTATION IN THE LEGISLATURES
The Council of States
5. [Amendment of Fourth Schedule to the Constitution].—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 2001 (30 of 2001), s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 3-9-2001).
6. Allocation of sitting member.—(1) On and from the appointed day, the sitting member of the Council of States representing the existing Union territory of Mizoram shall be deemed to have been duly elected under clause (4) of article 80 to fill the seat allotted to the State of Mizoram in that Council.
(2) The term of office of such sitting member shall remain unaltered.
7. [Amendment of section 27A of Act 43 of 1950].—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 2001 (30 of 2001), s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 3-9-2001).