Section 10. Provision as to Legislative Assembly as constituted on the appointed day

10. Provision as to Legislative Assembly as constituted on the appointed day.— (1) On and from the appointed day, the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh to be filled by persons chosen by direct election from Assembly constituencies shall be sixty and the number of seats to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and for the Scheduled Tribes of that State shall be fourteen and three respectively; and the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), shall be deemed to be amended accordingly. number of seats to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and for the Scheduled Tribes of that State (2) On and from the appointed day, the sixty territorial constituencies of the existing Union territory of Himachal Pradesh shall be deemed to be the constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh and the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1966, shall be construed accordingly. (3) Every sitting member of the Legislative Assembly of the existing Union territory of Himachal Pradesh representing a territorial constituency which, on the appointed day, by virtue of the provisions of sub-section (2), becomes a constituency of the State of Himachal Pradesh, shall be deemed to have been elected under article 170 to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh by that constituency. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh shall be deemed to be duly constituted on the appointed day . — 11. Duration of Legislative Assembly. The period of five years referred to in clause (1) of article 172 shall, in the case of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh, be deemed to have commenced on the day on which the duration of the existing Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Himachal Pradesh commenced under section 5 of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963).