The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 2
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 19] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1975/CHAITRA 19, 1897
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LOK SABHA
The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on the 9th April, 1975: —
BILL NO. 32 OF 1975
A Bill further to amend the Constitution of India.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
1. This Act may be called the Constitution (Thirty-Seventh Amend- Short title, ment) Act, 1975.
300 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PAHT II—SEC. 2]STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh is at piesent administered through a Chief Commissioner. It has a Pradesh Council, consisting mostly of representatives' of Zila Parishads, which functions as an advi- sory body on important matters relating to the administration of the Union territory. Some members of the Pradesh Council are also asso- ciated with the Chief Commissioner in the day-to-day administration as Counsellors. It is proposed to leplace the Pradesh Council by a Legisla- tive Assembly and the Counsellors by a Council of Ministers, as in certain other Union territories specified in article 239A of the Constitution. The Bill, therefore, seeks to include Arunachal Pradesh in that article.
2. Under artice 240 of the Constitution, the President is empowered to make regulations for the Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh. With the constitution of a Legislative Assembly for the Union-iacffiHiory, it is proposed to provide that, as in the case of other Union territories with Legislatures, this power may be exercised only when the Assembly is either dissolved or its functioning remains suspended. The Bill seeks to amend article 240 also to achieve this object.
NEW DELHI;
K. BRAHMANANDA REDDY.
The 19th March, 1975.
S. L. SHAKDHER,