Section 3 — Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition.

3. Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition.―(1) There shall be a 

Legislative Assembly for each Union territory.  

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[(2) The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of 

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[the Union territory] to be filled by 

persons chosen by direct election shall be thirty.]  

(3) The Central Government may nominate not more than three persons, not being persons in the 

service of Government, to be members of the Legislative Assembly of 
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[the Union territory].  

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[(4) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes in the Legislative Assembly of the Union 

territory.]  

(5) The number of seats reserved for the scheduled castes or the scheduled tribes in the Legislative 

Assembly of 
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[the Union territory] under sub-section (4) shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same 

proportion to the total number of seats in the Assembly as the population of the scheduled castes in the 

Union territory or of the scheduled tribes in the Union territory, as the case may be, in respect of which 

seats are so reserved, bears to the total population of the Union territory.  

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[Explanation.―In this sub-section, the expression “population” means the population as ascertained 

at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published:  

Provided that the reference in this Explanation to the last preceding census of which the relevant 

figures have been published shall, until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 
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[2026] 

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[2026] have been published, be construed as a reference to the 

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[2001] census.]  

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[(6) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (4), the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes in 

in the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory shall cease to have effect on the same date on which 

the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes in the House of the People shall cease to have effect 

under article 334:  

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall affect any representation in the Legislative Assembly 

of the Union territory until the dissolution of the then existing Assembly.]