States Reorganisation Act,1956
Act No : 37
Section :
Special provision as to certain elections.
48. Special provision as to certain elections. Where any election is held during the year commencing on the appointed day to fill a seat or seats in the Council of States allotted to a new or reorganised State or a seat or seats in the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council, if any, of such State, any person who is for the time being an elector for a parliamentary constituency or assembly constituency in any of the connected States, shall, for the purpose of sub-section (1) of section 3, clause (c) of section 5 or sub-section (1) of section 6, as the case may be, of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951), be deemed to be an elector for a parliamentary constituency or assembly constituency, as the case may be, of that new or reorganised State. Explanation.--In this section "new or reorganised State" means any of the States specified in the first column of the following Table, and "connected States", in relation to a new or reorganised State, means the States specified against that new or reorganised State in the second column: New or reorganised State Connected States 1. Andhra Pradesh . . . Bombay and Mysore. 2. Bombay . . . . . Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Mysore. 3. Kerala . . . . . Madras. 4. Madhya Pradesh . . . Bombay. 5. Madras . . . . . Kerala and Mysore. 6. Mysore . . . . . Andhra Pradesh, Bombay, and Madras.
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