THE GOVERNMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES (AMENDMENT)

ACT, 2023

NO. 39 OF 2023

[20th December, 2023.]

An Act further to amend the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as

follows:––

1. (1) This Act may be called the Government of Union Territories (Amendment)

Act, 2023.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by

notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

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REGISTERED NO. DL—(N)04/0007/2003—23

MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 22nd December, 2023/Pausha 1, 1945 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the

20th December, 2023 and is hereby published for general information:—

Short title and

commencement.

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2. In the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, after section 3, the following

sections shall be inserted, namely:—

“3A. (1) Seats shall be reserved for women in the Legislative Assembly of the

Union territory of Puducherry.

(2) As nearly as may be, one-third of the seats reserved for the Scheduled

Castes in the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry shall be

reserved for women.

(3) As nearly as may be, one-third of the total number of seats to be filled by

direct election to the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry

(including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes)

shall be reserved for women in such manner as Parliament may by law determine.

3B. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the provisions of this Act, the

provisions relating to reservation of seats for women in the Legislative Assembly of

the Union territory of Puducherry shall come into effect after an exercise of delimitation

is undertaken for this purpose after the relevant figures for the first census taken after

the commencement of the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Act, 2023

have been published and shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of

fifteen years from such commencement.

(2) Subject to the provisions of section 3A, seats reserved for women in the

Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry shall continue till such

date as Parliament may by law determine.

(3) Rotation of seats reserved for women in the Legislative Assembly of the

Union territory of Puducherry shall take effect after such subsequent exercise of

delimitation as Parliament may by law determine.

(4) Nothing in section 3A shall affect any representation in the Legislative

Assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry until the dissolution of the then

existing Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry.”.

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S.K.G. RAHATE,

Secretary to the Govt. of India.

20 of 1963.

Insertion of

new sections

3A and 3B.

Reservation

of seats for

women in

Legislative

Assembly of

Union

territory of

Puducherry.

Reservation

of seats for

women to

take effect.

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