puducherry · Act 20 of 1963

THE GOVERNMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES ACT, 1963

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Jurisdiction
puducherry
Enactment date
1963-05-10
Sections available
70

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1Short title and commencement.→2Definitions and interpretation.→3Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition.→4Qualification for membership of Legislative Assembly.→5Duration of Legislative Assemblies.→6Sessions of Legislative Assembly, prorogation and dissolution.→7Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly.→8Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration.→9Right of Administrator to address and send messages to Legislative Assembly.→10Rights of Ministers as respects Legislative Assembly.→11Oath or affirmation by members.→12Voting in Assembly, power of Assembly to act notwithstanding vacancies and quorum.→13Vacation of seats.→14Disqualifications for membership.→14ADisqualification on ground of defection for being a member.→15Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified.→16Powers, privileges, etc., of members.→17Salaries and allowances of members.→18Extent of legislative power.→19Exemption of property of the Union from taxation.→20Restrictions or laws passed by Legislative Assembly with respect to certain matters.→21Inconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by Legislative Assembly.→22Sanction of the Administrator required for certain legislative proposals.→23Special provisions as to financial Bills.→24Procedure as to lapsing of Bills.→25Assent to Bills.→25ABills reserved for consideration.→26Requirements as to sanctions and recommendations to be regarded as matters of procedure only.→27Annual financial statement.→28Procedure in Legislative Assembly with respect to estimates.→29Appropriation Bills.→30Supplementary, additional or excess grants.→31Votes on account.→32Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by Legislative Assembly.→33Rules of procedure.→34Official language or languages of Union territory and language or languages to be used in Legislative Assembly thereof.→35Language to be used for Acts, Bills, etc.→36Restriction on discussion in the Legislative Assembly.→37Courts not to inquire into proceedings of Legislative Assembly.→38Definitions.→39Assembly constituencies.→40Representation of Pondicherry in the House of the People.→41Duties of Delimitation Commission.→42Associate members.→43Procedure as to delimitation.→43ASpecial provision for delimitation of constituencies of Mizoram Legislative Assembly.→43BRepresentation of Arunachal Pradesh in the House of the People.→43CSpecial provisions for delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in Arunachal Pradesh and constituencies of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.→43DSpecial provision for determination of constituencies in the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.→43ESpecial provisions as to readjustment of territorial constituencies.→43FSpecial provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies on the basis of 2001 census.→44Council of Ministers.→45Other provisions as to Ministers.→46Conduct of business.→47Consolidated Fund of the Union territory.→47APublic Account of the Union territory and moneys credited to it.→48Contingency Fund of the Union territory.→48ABorrowing upon the security of the Consolidated Fund of the Union territory.→48BForm of accounts of the Union territory.→49Audit reports.→50Relation of Administrator and his Ministers to President.→51Provision in case of failure of constitutional machinery.→52Authorisation of expenditure by President.→53Provisions for election to Parliament from Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry.→54Transitional provisions for administration of justice in certain areas in the Union territory of Mizoram.→54AProvision as to provisional Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh.→55Contracts and suits.→56Power of President to remove difficulties.→57Amendment to certain enactments.→58Repeal and savings.→
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