Legislative Councils Act ,1957
Act No : 37
Section :
Increase in the strength of the Mysore Legislative Council.
8. Increase in the strength of the Mysore Legislative Council. (1) The total number of seats in the Legislative Council of Mysore shall be increased to 63 and of those seats-- (a) the numbers to be filled by persons elected by electorates referred to in sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (3) of article 171 shall be 21, 6 and 6 respectively; 493 (b) the number to be filled by persons elected by the members of the Legislative Assembly of Mysore in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (d) of the said clause shall be 21; and (c) the number to be filled by persons nominated by the Governor of Mysore in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (e) of that clause shall be 9. (2) As from the commencement of this Act, the Delimitation of Council Constituencies (Mysore) Order, 1951, shall, until other provision is made by law, have effect subject to the modifications directed by the Fourth Schedule, and in the said Order as so modified, a reference to the State of Mysore shall be construed as a reference to that State as formed by section 7 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956.). (3) As from the commencement of this Act,-- (a) every sitting member of the said Council representing immediately before such commencement a council constituency specified in column 1 of the Table below shall be deemed to have been elected to the said Council by the council constituency specified against that constituency in column 2 of the said Table:-- TABLE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mysore (Graduates) constituency . Mysore South (Graduates) consti- tuency. Mysore (Teachers) constituency . Mysore South (Teachers) consti- tency. Kolar (Local Authorities) consti- tuency. Tumkur (Local Authorities) con- stituency. Mysore South East (Local Author- ities) constituency. Bangalore (Local Authorities con- stituency. Hassan (Local Authorities) consti- tuency. Mandya (Local Authorities) con- stituency. Mysore South (Local Authorities) constituency. Mysore (Local Authorities) con- stituency. Chickmagalur (Local Authorities) constituency. Shimoga (Local Authorities) con- stituency. Mysore South West (Local Author- ities) constituency. Chitaldrug-cum-Bellary (Local Auth- orities) constituency. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 494 (b) every sitting member of the said Council elected by the members of the Legislative Assembly of the former State of Mysore, every sitting member of the said Council chosen in pursuance of clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 36 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956.), and the sitting member of the said Council specified by the Chairman of the Legislative Council of Madras under sub-rule (7) of rule 4 of the States Reorganisation (Elections to Provisional State Legislatures) Rules, 1956, shall be deemed to have been duly elected by the members of the Legislative Assembly of the present State of Mysore; and (c) every sitting member of the said Council nominated by the Rajpramukh of the former State of Mysore shall be deemed to have been nominated to the said Council by the Governor of the present State of Mysore. (4) The three members who, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were members of the Legislative Council of Bombay and became on that date members of the Legislative Council of Mysore by virtue of sub-rule (7) of rule 4 of the States Reorganisation (Elections to Provisional State Legislatures) Rules, 1956, shall be deemed to have been elected to the Legislative Council of Mysore by the Mysore North West (Local Authorities) constituency. (5) As soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, elections shall be held to fill such of the seats allotted to the several council constituencies by the Delimitation of Council Constituencies (Mysore) Order, 1951, as modified by this Act and such of the seats to be filled by persons referred to in clause (b) of sub- section (1) as are then vacant, as if those seats had then become vacant. (6) As soon as may be after such commencement, the vacancies in the seats allotted under clause (c) of sub-section (1) shall be filled by nomination by the Governor. (7) The said Council shall be deemed to have been first constituted on the date on which the Legislative Council of the former State of Mysore was first constituted. (8) In order that, as nearly as may be, one-third of the members of the said Council may retire on the 1*[13th May, 1958], and on the expiration of every second year thereafter, the Governor of Mysore shall, after consultation with the Election Commission, make by order such provisions as he thinks fit in regard to the terms of office of the sitting members chosen in pursuance of clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 36 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956), and of ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and Sch. II, for "26th April, 1958" (retrospectively). 495 the members to be elected and nominated under sub-sections (5) and (6) of this section. (9) Section 36 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956), shall be amended, and shall be deemed always to have been amended, as follows:-- (a) in sub-section (2) for the words, brackets and figures "Until the said Council has been reconstituted in accordance with the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) of this section and summoned to meet for the first time", the words "Until otherwise provided by law" shall be substituted; and (b) sub-sections (3) and (4) shall be omitted. (10) In this section, the expression 'the former State of Mysore' means the State of Mysore as it existed immediately before the 1st day of November, 1956.
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