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REGISTERED No. D. 221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 2

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 18] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, I965/CHAITRA 10, 1887

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LOK SABHA

The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on the 31st March, 1965: —

BILL NO. 20 OF 1965

A Bill to provide for direct election in certain Union territories for

filling the seats allotted to them in the House of the People and

for matters connected therewith.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

Short title.

1. This Act may be called the Union Territories (Direct Election to the House of the People) Act, 1965.

5 2. In this Act—

Defini- tions.

(a) "parliamentary constituency" has the same meaning as of 1950.

in the Representation of the People Act, 1950;

(b) "sitting member" means a person who immediately before the commencement of this Act is a member of the House ¹o of the People;

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(c) "Union territory" means any of the Union territories of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

43 of 19Ff< 3. At the next general election to the House of the People and thereafter, the seats allotted under section 3 of the Representation 5 of the People Act, 1950 to the Union territories in the House of the People shall he seats to be filled by persons chosen by direct election and for that purpose each Union territory shall form one parlia- mentary constituency.

Direct election to fill the seats in the House of the People allotted to certain Union ter ritories.

4. In the Representation of the People Act, 1950,— 10 Amend- ment of Act 43 of 1950.

(a) in sub-section (1) of section 4, the words ",to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands, to Dadra and Nagar Haveli," shall be omitted;

(b) in sub-section (1) of section 13B, for the words "each

parliamentary constituency in the Union territory of Delhi,", the 15 words "a parliamentary constituency in each of the Union terri- # tories of Delhi, the Andaman and Nicobar IsMm*?, "the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli," shall be substituted;

(c) in sub-section (1) and in sub-section (2) of section 13D, ²°

for the words "the Union territory of Delhi", the words "each of the Union territories of Delhi, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli" shall be substituted,

5. In the Representation of the People Act, 1951, in section 4, the 25 Amend- ment of Act 43 of 1951.

words "to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands, to Dadra and Nagar Haveli," shall be omitted.

Provision as to sitting member.

6. The sitting member representing each Union territory shall continue to represent that Union territory until the dissolution of 33 the present House of the People and if before such dissolution the seat allotted to a Union territory in the House of the People becomes vacant it shall be filled by a person nominated by the President and that person shall represent the Union territory in the present House of the People until its dissolution.

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

The Union territories of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli have been allotted one seat each in the House of the People. Under the existing law, these seats are to be filled by persons nomi- nated by the President. The Bill seeks to provide that at the next general election and thereafter as and when necessary these seats shall be filled by direct election.

NEW DELHI; G. L. NANDA.

The Uth March, 1965.

FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM

Clause 3 of the Bill provides for direct election to fill the seats in the House of the People allotted to the Union territories of the Anda- man and Nicobar Islands, the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. For conducting the elections in these territories some expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of India will be involved in the preparation of draft electoral rolls and their printing, pay and allowances of officers and staff engaged in the preparation of electoral rolls and conduct of elections, purchase of ballot boxes, setting up of polling stations, etc.

2, It is not possible to give precise details of the expenditure in- volved but on a rough estimate it would be about Rs. 76,000.

S. L. SHAKDHER,

§e$r(>tary.

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