71. Amendment of articles 210, 239A, 244, 244A, 275, 332, 371B and Fifth and Sixth Schedules
to the Constitution.—On and from the appointed day—
(a) in article 210, in the proviso to clause (2), for the words “Legislature of the State of Himachal
Pradesh”, the words “Legislatures of the States of Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and
Tripura” shall be substituted;
(b) in article 239A, in clause (1), the words “Manipur, Tripura,” shall be omitted;
(c) in article 244,—
(i) in clause (1), for the words “the State of Assam”, the words “the States of Assam and
Meghalaya” shall be substituted;
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(ii) in clause (2), for the words “the State of Assam”, the words “the States of Assam and
Meghalaya and the Union territory of Mizoram” shall be substituted;
(d) in article 244A, in clause (1), for the word and letter “Part A”, the word and figure “Part I”
shall be substituted;
(e) in article 275, in clause (a) of the second proviso to clause (1), for the word and letter “Part A”,
the word and figure “Part I” shall be substituted;
(f) in article 332,—
(i) in clause (5), the words “except in the case of the constituency comprising the cantonment
and municipality of shillong” shall be omitted;
(ii) in clause (6), the words “except from the constituency comprising the cantonment and
municipality of Shillong” shall be omitted;
(g) in article 371B, for the word and letter “Part A”, the word and figure “Part I” shall be
substituted;
(h) in the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, in paragraph 1, for the words “State of Assam”, the
words “States of Assam and Meghalaya” shall be substituted;
(i) the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution shall stand amended as directed in the Eighth Schedule.
72. Amendment of Act 2 of 1934.—On and from the appointed day, in section 21A of the Reserve
Bank of India Act, 1934, in sub-section (1), the brackets and words “(including the autonomous State of
Meghalaya)” shall be omitted.
73. Amendment of Act 64 of 1950.—On and from the appointed day, in section 47A of the Road
Transport Corporations Act, 1950, in the Explanation to sub-section (1), after clause (ii), the following
clause shall be inserted, namely:—
“(iii) in relation to the Assam State Road Transport Corporation, shall mean the Government
of the State of Assam or of Meghalaya as formed under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation)
Act, 1971.”.
74. Amendment of Act 37 of 1956. —On and from the appointed day, in the States Reorganisation
Act, 1956,—
(a) for clause (c) of section 15, the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
“(c) the Eastern Zone, comprising the States of Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa;”;
(b) in sub-section (1) of section 16, clause (d) shall be omitted.
75. Amendment of Act 20 of 1963.—On and from the appointed day, in the Government of Union
Territories Act, 1963,—
(a) in clause (h) of sub-section (1) of section 2, the words “Manipur, Tripura,” shall be omitted;
(b) in section 44, sub-section (2) shall be omitted;
(c) section 52 shall be omitted.
76. Amendment of Act 56 of 1955 and the Tripura (Courts) Order, 1950.—On and from the
appointed day,—
(a) the Manipur (Courts) Act, 1955 shall stand amended as directed in the Ninth Schedule;
(b) the Tripura (Courts) Order, 1950 shall stand amended as directed in the Tenth Schedule.
77. Territorial extent of laws.—The provisions of Part II shall not be deemed to have effected any
change in the territories to which any law in force immediately before the appointed day extends or
applies, and the territorial references in any such law to the existing State of Assam or the autonomous
State of Meghalaya or the Union territory of Manipur or the Union territory of Tripura or the North-East
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Frontier Agency shall, until otherwise provided by a competent Legislature or other competent authority,
be construed as meaning the territories within that State or autonomous State or Union territory or Agency
immediately before the appointed day.
78. Continuance of existing District Councils and Regional Council and members thereof.—For
the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that all District Councils and the Regional Council constituted
under the provisions of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution and functioning immediately before the
appointed day in the respective autonomous districts and in the autonomous region shall, as from that day,
be deemed to have been constituted under the said Schedule as amended by clause (i) of section 71, read
with the Eighth Schedule and accordingly,—
(a) every such District Council and the Regional Council shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue
to function in the respective autonomous districts and in the autonomous region, notwithstanding that
any such district or region ceases to be comprised in the territories of the State of Assam, by virtue of
the provisions of Part II; and
(b) every member of such District Council or Regional Council shall continue to be a member
thereof for the unexpired term of his office as such.
79. Power to adapt laws.—For the purpose of facilitating the application of any law in relation to any
of the States of Union territories formed or established by the provisions of Part II, the appropriate
Government may, before the expiration of two years from the appointed day, by order, make such
adaptations and modifications of the law, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or
expedient, and thereupon every such law shall have effect subject to the adaptations and modifications so
made until altered, repealed or amended by a competent Legislature or other competent authority.
Explanation.—In this section, the expression “the appropriate Government” means—
(a) as respects any law relating to a matter enumerated in the Union List in the Seventh Schedule
to the Constitution, the Central Government; and
(b) as respects any other law,—
(i) in its application to a State, the State Government, and
(ii) in its application to a Union territory, the Central Government.
80. Power to construe laws.—(1) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has
been made under section 79 for the adaptation of a law made before the appointed day, any court, tribunal
or authority required or empowered to enforce such law may, for the purpose of facilitating its application
in relation to the State of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya or Tripura or to the Union territory of Mizoram or
Arunachal Pradesh construe the law in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary
or proper in regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.
(2) Any reference to the High Court of Assam or the High Court of Assam and Nagaland or to the
Court of the Judicial Commissioner for Manipur or the Court of the Judicial Commissioner for Tripura in
any law shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed, on and from the appointed day, as a
reference to the common High Court.
81. Power to name authorities, etc., for exercising statutory functions.—The Central Government,
as respects the Union territory of Mizoram or Arunachal Pradesh and the State Government as respects
any new State established or formed by the provisions of Part II may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, specify the authority, officer or person who, as from the appointed day, shall be competent to
exercise such functions exercisable under any law in force on that day as may be mentioned in that
notification and such law shall have effect accordingly.
82. Legal proceedings.—(1) Where immediately before the appointed day the Union is a party to any
legal proceedings with respect to any property, right or liability and such property, right or liability
devolves on the State of Manipur or the State of tripura under this Act, then, the State of Manipur or, as
the case may be, the State of Tripura shall be deemed to be substituted for the Union as a party to those
proceedings and the proceedings may continue accordingly.
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(2) Where immediately before the appointed day the autonomous State of Meghalaya is a party to any
legal proceedings with respect to any property, right or liability of that State, and such property, right or
liability devolves on the State of Meghalaya under this Act, then, the State of Meghalaya shall be deemed
to be substituted for the autonomous State of Meghalaya as a party to those proceedings and the
proceedings may continue accordingly.
(3) Where immediately before the appointed day the existing State of Assam is a party to any legal
proceedings with respect to any property, rights or liabilities subject to apportionment under this Act, the
successor State, which succeeds to, or acquires a share in, that property or those rights or liabilities by
virtue of any provision of this Act, shall be deemed to be substituted for the existing State of Assam as a
party to those proceedings or added as a party thereto, as the case may be, and the proceedings may
continue accordingly.
83. Rights of pleaders to practise in certain cases.—Any person who, immediately before the
appointed day, is enrolled as a pleader entitled to practise in any subordinate courts in the existing State of
Assam shall, for a period of one year from that day, continue to be entitled to practise in those courts,
notwithstanding that the whole or any part of the territories within the jurisdiction of those courts has been
transferred to the State of Meghalaya or to a Union territory.
84. Transfer of pending proceedings.—(1) Every proceeding pending immediately before the
appointed day before a court (other than a High Court), tribunal, authority or officer in any area which on
that day falls within a State or Union territory shall, if it is a proceeding relating exclusively to the
territories which as from that day are the territories of another State or Union territory, stand transferred to
the corresponding court, tribunal, authority or officer in that other State or Union territory, as the case may
be.
(2) If any question arises as to whether any proceeding should stand transferred under sub-section (1),
it shall be referred to the common High Court and the decision of that High Court shall be final.
(3) In this section,—
(a) “proceeding” includes any suit, case or appeal; and
(b) “corresponding court, tribunal, authority or officer” in a State or a Union territory means—
(i) the court, tribunal, authority or officer in that State or Union territory in which or before
whom the proceeding would have lain if it had been instituted after the appointed day; or
(ii) in case of doubt, such court, tribunal, authority or officer in that State or Union territory as
may be determined after the appointed day by the Government of that State or the Central
Government, as the case may be, or before the appointed day by the Government of the existing
State of Assam or the Government of the autonomous State of Meghalaya or the Central
Government, as the case may be, to be the corresponding court, tribunal, authority or officer.
85. Provisions as to continuance of courts, etc.—All courts and tribunals and all authorities
discharging lawful functions throughout the existing State of Assam or the Union territory of Manipur or
the Union territory of Tripura or any part of such State or Union territory immediately before the
appointed day shall, unless their continuance is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or until other
provision is made by a competent Legislature or other competent authority, continue to exercise their
respective functions.
86. Effect of provisions of the Act inconsistent with other laws.—The provisions of this Act shall
have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law.
87. Power to remove difficulties.—(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this
Act, the President may, by order, do anything not inconsistent with such provisions which appears to him
to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of removing the difficulty.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of Parliament.
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[87A. Power to remove difficulties.—(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of
this Act, as amended by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment)
1. Ins. by Act 26 of 2012, s. 8 (w.e.f. 23-3-2013).
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Act, 2012, the Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions
not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as may appear to be necessary for removing the difficulty:
Provided that no such order shall be made under this section after the expiry of a period of two years
from the commencement of the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws
(Amendment) Act, 2012.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of Parliament.]
88. Power to make rules.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
make rules to give effect to the provisions of this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each
House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days 1
[which may be comprised in one
session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session immediately
following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid], both Houses agree in making any modification
in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only
in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or
annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.