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The Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969

71 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 112th January, 1970, vide Notifn No . G.S.R. 74, 12th January, 1970, in respect of ss. 2 and 3, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i)
  2. 2Definitions
  3. 3As indicated in the reorganisation scheme, the Fourth Schedule to the Bill contains provisions for t
  4. 4Executive power of Meghalaya
  5. 5Extent of executive power of Meghalaya
  6. 6Council of Ministers
  7. 7Other provisions as to Ministers
  8. 8Advocate-General for Meghalaya
  9. 9Conduct of business
  10. 10Duties of Chief Minister as respects the furnishing of information to Governor, etc
  11. 11Constitution of the Legislature of Meghalaya
  12. 12Pensions
  13. 13Power of Election Commission to maintain delimitation orders up-to-date
  14. 14Electors and electoral rolls
  15. 16Water, that is to say, water supplies, irrigation and canals, drainage and embankments, water storag
  16. 17Land, that is to say, rights in or over land, land tenures including the relation of landlord and te
  17. 18Apportionment of assets and liabilities by agreement
  18. 19Sessions of Legislative Assembly, prorogation and dissolution
  19. 20Right of Governor to address and send messages to Legislative Assembly
  20. 21Special address by the Governor
  21. 22Section 22
  22. 23Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly
  23. 24Speaker and Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration
  24. 25Secretariat of Legislative Assembly
  25. 27Voting in Assembly, power of Assembly to act notwithstanding vacancies and quorum
  26. 28Vacation of seats
  27. 29Disqualification for membership
  28. 30Penalty for sitting and voting before making an oath or affirmation or when not qualified or — when
  29. 31Powers, privileges, etc., of members
  30. 32Salaries and allowances of members
  31. 33Elections to the legislature of the autonomous State subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament (Entry 37)
  32. 34Exemption from taxation of properties of the Union and the State of Assam and of certain vehicles registered in Assam or Meghalaya
  33. 35Powers, privileges and immunities of the Legislative Assembly and of the members and committees ther
  34. 36Inconsistency between laws made by the Legislature of the State of Assam and laws made by — the Legi
  35. 37Special provisions as to financial Bills
  36. 38Pensions payable by the autonomous State or out of the Consolidated Fund of Meghalaya (Entry 42)
  37. 39Assent to Bills
  38. 40Bills reserved for consideration
  39. 41Requirements as to sanction and recommendation to be regarded as matters of procedure — only
  40. 42Annual Financial Statement
  41. 43Procedure in Legislative Assembly with respect to estimates
  42. 44Appropriation Bills
  43. 46Taxes on mineral rights subjects to any limitations imposed by Parliament by law relating to mineral development (Entry 50)
  44. 47Rules of procedure
  45. 48Taxes on the entry of goods into a local area for consumption, use or sale therein (Entry 52)
  46. 49Courts not to enquire into the proceedings of Legislative Assembly
  47. 50Taxes on goods and passengers carried by road or on inland waterways (Entry 56)
  48. 51Consolidated Fund
  49. 53Custody of suitors' deposits and other moneys received by public servants and courts
  50. 54Custody, etc., of Consolidated Fund, Contingency Fund and moneys credited to the public account
  51. 55Certain taxes levied by Assam to be appropriated by Meghalaya
  52. 56Distribution of revenues
  53. 57Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by Legislative Assembly
  54. 58Apportionment of assets and liabilities
  55. 59Offences against laws with respect to any of the matters in this Part (Entry 64)
  56. 60Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this Part (Entry 65)
  57. 61Fees in respect of any of the matters in this Part, but not including fees taken in any court (Entry 66)
  58. 62Provisions as to Provisional Legislative Assembly
  59. 64Provisions as to continuance of courts
  60. 65Provisions relating to services
  61. 66Continuance of existing laws and their adaptations
  62. 68Power of Governments of Assam and Meghalaya to carry on trade, etc., in Meghalaya
  63. 69Power to suspend provisions of this Act in case of failure of constitutional — machinery
  64. 70Construction of reference to "State" and "State Government" in other laws in relation to — Meghalaya
  65. 71Power to construe laws
  66. 73Power to remove difficulties
  67. 74Amendment of the Sixth Schedule
  68. 75Amendment of Act 2 of 1934
  69. 76Amendment of Act 37 of 1956
  70. 77Power to make rules
  71. 244Awas added to the Constitution by the Constitution (Twenty-Second Amendment) Act, 1969 to enable Par