The Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960

This Act may be called the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of May, 1960; (b) "article" means an article of the Constitution; (c) "assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have thesame meaning as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950); (d) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme,notification or other instrument having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in thewhole or in any part of the State of Bombay; (e) "notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette; (f) "population ratio", in relation to the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat, means the ratio of66.31 to 33.69; (g) "sitting member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the State ofBombay, means a person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House; (h) "transferred territory" means the territories which, as from the appointed day, are theterritories of the State of Gujarat; (i) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury; (j) any reference to a district, taluka, village or other territorial division of the State of Bombayshall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division as recognisedfor land revenue purposes on the 1st day of December, 1959.

(1) As from the appointed day, there shall be formed a new Stateto be known as the State of Gujarat comprising the following territories of the State of Bombay,namely: (a) Banaskantha, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Ahmedabad, Kaira, Panch-mahals, Baroda, Broach,Surat, Dangs, Amreli, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Kutch districts;and (b) the villages in Umbergaon taluka of Thana district, the villages in Nawapur and Nandurbartalukas of West Khandesh district and the villages in Akkalkuwa and Taloda talukas of WestKhandesh district, respectively specified in Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule; and thereupon, the said territories shall cease to form part of the State of Bombay, and the residuary Stateof Bombay shall be known as the State of Maharashtra. (2) The villages in Umbergaon taluka specified in Part I of the First Schedule shall form a separatetaluka of the same name and be included in Surat district, and the remaining villages in the said talukashall be included in, and form part of, Dahanu taluka of Thana district; and the villages specified inParts II and III of the First Schedule shall respectively be included in, and form part of, Songadh taluka ofSurat district and Sagbara taluka of Broach district.

As from the appointed day, in the FirstSchedule to the Constitution, under the heading "1. THE STATES", (a) for entry 4, the following entry shall be substituted, namely: "4. Gujarat The territories referred to in sub-section (1) ofsection 3 of the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960."; (b) after entry 7, the following entry shall be inserted, namely: "8. Maharashtra The territories specified in sub-section (1) ofsection 8 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956,but excluding the territories referred to insub-section (1) of section 3 of the BombayReorganisation Act, 1960."; and (c) entries 8 to 14 shall be renumbered as entries 9 to 15 respectively.

Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part shall bedeemed to affect the power of the State Government to alter, after the appointed day, the name, extent orboundaries of any district, taluka or village in the State.