The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area Act, 1957

THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957

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THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957 __________ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS ___________ SECTIONS 1. Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area. Amendment of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution. Amendment of the Delimitation Order. Provision as to the sitting member of Parliament. Territorial extent of laws not to be affected.

THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957

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Section 1 — Short title and commencement

Section 2 — Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area

Section 3 — Amendment of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution

Section 4 — Amendment of the Delimitation Order

Section 6 — Provision as to the sitting member of Parliament

Section 7 — Territorial extent of laws not to be affected

THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957 ACT NO. 42 OF 1957 [29th November, 1957.] An Act to provide for the formation of the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area of Assam as an administrative unit. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area Act, 1957. Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area.—As from the commencement of this Act, there shall be formed a new administrative unit in the State of Assam by the name of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area comprising the tribal areas which at such commencement were known as the Naga Hills District and Tuensang Frontier Division of the North East Frontier Agency. Amendment of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.—In the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, in paragraph 20,— (a) after sub-paragraph (2A), the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted, namely:— “(2B) The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area shall comprise the areas which at the commencement of this Constitution were known as the Naga Hills District and the Naga Tribal Area.”; (b) in sub-paragraph (3), after the words “Administrative area”, the brackets and words “(other than the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area)” shall be inserted; (c) in Part A of the Table, item 4 shall be omitted; and (d) in Part B of the Table, for item 2, the following item shall be substituted, namely:— “2. Territorial extent of laws not to be affected.—The provisions of section 2 shall not be deemed to have effected any change in the areas to which any law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act extends or applies, and territorial references in any such law to the Naga Hills District, the Naga Tribal Area or the Tuensang Frontier Division shall, until otherwise provided by a competent legislature or other competent authority, continue to have the same meaning.