The Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000

This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "appointed day"1 means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in theOfficial Gazette, appoint; (b) "article" means an article of the Constitution; (c) "assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have thesame meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950); (d) "Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President underarticle 324; (e) "existing State of Uttar Pradesh" means the State of Uttar Pradesh as existing immediatelybefore the appointed day; (f) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notificationor other instrument having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in the whole or inany part of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh; (g) "notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette; (h) "population ratio", in relation to the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, means the ratioof 1321:70; (i) "sitting member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existingState of Uttar Pradesh, means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member ofthat House; (j) "successor State", in relation to the existing State of Uttar Pradesh, means the State of UttarPradesh or Uttaranchal; (k) "transferred territory" means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from theexisting State of Uttar Pradesh to the State of Uttaranchal; (l) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury; and (m) any reference to a district, tehsil or other territorial division of the existing State of UttarPradesh shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division on theappointed day.

On and from the appointed day, there shall be formed a newState to be known as the State of Uttaranchal comprising the following territories of the existing State ofUttar Pradesh, namely: Pauri Garhwal, Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Kashi, Chamoli, Dehradun, Nainital, Almora, Pithoragarh,Udham Singh Nagar, Bageshwar, Champawat, Rudraprayag and Hardwar districts, and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh.

On and from the appointed day, theState of Uttar Pradesh shall comprise the territories of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh other than thosespecified in section 3.

On and from the appointed day, in theFirst Schedule to the Constitution, under the heading "I. THE STATES", (a) in the paragraph relating to the territories of the State of Uttar Pradesh, after the words,brackets and figures "clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1968 (24 of 1968), the following shall be inserted, namely:-- "and the territories specified in section 3 of the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000"; (b) after entry 26, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:-- "27. Uttaranchal: The territories specified in section 3 of the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act,2000.".