Government of Union Territories Act, 1963
Bare Act · 1963
An Act to provide for Legislative Assemblies and Councils of Ministers for certain Union territories and for certain other matters.
- Act number
- 20 of 1963
- Enacted
- 10 May 1963
- Contents
- 70 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Part I — Preliminary
Part II — Legislative Assemblies
- Section 3 – Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition
- Section 4 – Qualification for membership of Legislative Assembly
- Section 5 – Duration of Legislative Assemblies
- Section 6 – Sessions of Legislative Assembly, prorogation and dissolution (preview)
- Section 8 – Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration (preview)
- Section 9 – Right of Administrator to address and send messages to Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 10 – Rights of Ministers as respects Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 11 – Oath or affirmation by members (preview)
- Section 12 – Voting in Assembly, power of Assembly to act notwithstanding vacancies and quorum (preview)
- Section 13 – Vacation of seats (preview)
- Section 14 – Disqualifications for membership (preview)
- Section 14A – Disqualification on ground of defection for being a member (preview)
- Section 15 – Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified (preview)
- Section 16 – Powers, privileges, etc., of members (preview)
- Section 17 – Salaries and allowances of members (preview)
- Section 18 – Extent of legislative power (preview)
- Section 19 – Exemption of property of the Union from taxation (preview)
- Section 20 – Restrictions or laws passed by Legislative Assembly with respect to certain matters (preview)
- Section 21 – Inconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 22 – Sanction of the Administrator required for certain legislative proposals (preview)
- Section 23 – Special provisions as to financial Bills (preview)
- Section 24 – Procedure as to lapsing of Bills (preview)
- Section 25 – Assent to Bills (preview)
- Section 25A – Bills reserved for consideration (preview)
- Section 26 – Requirements as to sanctions andrecommendations to be regarded as matters of procedure only (preview)
- Section 27 – Annual financial statement (preview)
- Section 28 – Procedure in Legislative Assembly with respect to estimates (preview)
- Section 29 – Appropriation Bills (preview)
- Section 30 – Supplementary, additional or excess grants (preview)
- Section 31 – Votes on account (preview)
- Section 32 – Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 33 – Rules of procedure (preview)
- Section 34 – Official language or languages of Union territory and language or languages to be used in Legislative Assemblythereof (preview)
- Section 35 – Language to be used for Acts, Bills, etc (preview)
- Section 36 – Restriction on discussion in the Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 37 – Courts not to inquire into proceedings of Legislative Assembly (preview)
Sections
Part III — Delimitation Of Constituencies
- Section 38 – Definitions (preview)
- Section 39 – Assembly constituencies (preview)
- Section 40 – Representation of Pondicherry in the House of the People (preview)
- Section 41 – Duties of Delimitation Commission (preview)
- Section 42 – Associate members (preview)
- Section 43 – Procedure as to delimitation (preview)
- Section 43A – Special provision for delimitation of constituencies of Mizoram Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 43B – Representation of Arunachal Pradesh in the House of the People (preview)
- Section 43C – Special provisions for delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in Arunachal Pradesh and constituencies of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (preview)
- Section 43D – Special provision for determination of constituencies in the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (preview)
- Section 43E – Special provisions as to readjustment of territorial constituencies (preview)
- Section 43F – Special provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies on the basis of 2001 census (preview)
Part IV — Council Of Ministers
- Section 44 – Council of Ministers (preview)
- Section 45 – Other provisions as to Ministers (preview)
- Section 46 – Conduct of business (preview)
Part V — Miscellaneous And Transitional Provisions
- Section 47 – Consolidated Fund of the Union territory (preview)
- Section 47A – Public Account of the Union territory and moneys credited to it (preview)
- Section 48 – Contingency Fund of the Union territory (preview)
- Section 48A – Borrowing upon the security of the Consolidated Fund of the Union territory (preview)
- Section 48B – Form of accounts of the Union territory (preview)
- Section 49 – Audit reports (preview)
- Section 50 – Relation of Administrator and his Ministers to President (preview)
- Section 51 – Provision in case of failure of constitutional machinery (preview)
- Section 52 – Authorisation of expenditure by President (preview)
- Section 53 – Provisions for election to Parliament from Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry (preview)
- Section 54 – Transitional provisions for administration of justice in certain areas in the Union territory of Mizoram (preview)
- Section 54A – Provision as to provisional Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh (preview)
- Section 55 – Contracts and suits (preview)
- Section 56 – Power of President to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 57 – Amendment to certain enactments (preview)
- Section 58 – Repeal and savings (preview)