The Andhra State Act, 1953

(1) This Act may be called the Andhra State Act, 1953. (2) This Part and sections 43, 54, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66 and 69 shall come into force at once, andall other provisions of this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1953.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of October, 1953; (b) "article" means an article of the Constitution. (c) "Assembly constituency", "Council constituency" and "Parliamentary constituency" havethe same 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 the force of law in the whole or in any part of the State ofMadras or Mysore as constituted immediately before the appointed day; (e) "Order" means an Order published in the Official Gazette; (f) "sitting member" in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State,means a person who immediately before the appointed day is a member of that House; (g) "transferred territory" means the territory added to the State of Mysore bysub-section (1) of section 4.

(1) As from the appointed day, there shall be formed a Part AState to be known as the State of Andhra comprising the territories which immediately before that daywere comprised in Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur,Nellore, Kurnool, Anantapur, Cuddapah and Chittoor districts and Alur, Adoni and Rayadrugtaluks ofBellary district in the State of Madras and the said territories shall thereupon cease to form part of theState of Madras. (2) Without prejudice to the power of the State Government to alter hereafter the extent,boundaries and names of districts, the said taluks of Alur and Adoni shall be included in, and becomepart of, Kurnool district, and the said taluk of Rayadrug shall be included in, and become part of,Anantapur district.

(1) As from the appointed day, there shallbe added to the State of Mysore the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in thetaluks of Bellary district other than Alur, Adoni and Rayadrug in the State of Madras, and the saidterritory shall thereupon cease to form part of the State of Madras. (2) Without prejudice to the power of the State Government to alter hereafter the extent,boundaries and names of districts, the transferred territory shall form a separate district to be knownas Bellary district.

In the First Schedule to theConstitution. (a) in Part A, Entries 1 to 9 shall be renumbered as Entries 2 to 10 respectively, and beforeEntry 2 as so renumbered, the entry "1. Andhra" shall be inserted; (b) in Part A, in the description of the territories of States (i) before the paragraph relating to the territory of the State of Assam, the followingparagraph shall be inserted namely: "The territory of the State of Andhra shall comprise the territories specified insub-section (1) of section 3 of the Andhra State Act, 1953"; and (ii) at the end of the last paragraph, the following shall be added, namely: "but in the case of the State of Madras shall not include the territories specified insub-section (1) of section 3 and sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Andhra State Act, 1953";and (c) in Part B, at the end of the paragraph containing the description of the Territories of States,the following shall be added, namely: "and in the case of the State of Mysore shall also comprise the territory specified in subsection(1) of section 4 of the Andhra State Act, 1953."