GOVERNMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES ACT, 1963

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S.1 Short title and commencement

S.2 Definitions and interpretation

S.3 Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition

S.4 Qualification for membership of Legislative Assembly

S.5 Duration of Legislative Assemblies

S.6 Sessions of Legislative Assembly, prorogation and dissolution

S.7 Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly

S.8 Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration

S.9 Right of Administrator to address and send messages to Legislative Assembly

S.10 Rights of Ministers as respects Legislative Assembly

S.11 Oath or affirmation by members

S.12 Voting in Assembly, power of Assembly to act notwithstanding vacancies and quorum

S.13 Vacation of seats

S.14 Disqualifications for membership

S.14(a) Disqualification on ground of defection for being a member

S.15 Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified

S.16 Powers, privileges, etc., of members

S.17 Salaries and allowances of members

S.18 Extent of legislative powers

S.19 Exemption of property of the Union from taxation

S.20 Restrictions on laws passed by Legislative Assembly with respect to certain matters

S.21 Inconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by Legislative Assembly

S.22 Sanction of the Administrator required for certain legislative proposals

S.23 Special provisions as to financial Bills

S.24 Procedure as to lapsing of Bills

S.25 Assent to Bills

S.25(a) Bills reserved for consideration

S.26 Requirements as to sanction and recommendation to be regarded as matters of procedure-only

S.27 Annual financial statement

S.28 Procedure in Legislative Assembly with respect to estimates

S.29 Appropriation Bills

S.30 Supplementary, additional or excess grants

S.31 Votes on account

S.32 Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by Legislative Assembly

S.33 Rules of procedure

S.34 Official language or languages of Union territory and language or languages to be used in Legislative Assembly thereof

S.35 Language to be used for Acts, Bills, etc.

S.36 Restriction on discussion in the Legislative Assembly

S.37 Courts not to inquire into proceedings of Legislative Assembly

S.38 Definitions

S.39 Assembly constituencies

S.40 Representation of Pondicherry in the House of the People

S.41 Duties of Delimitation Commission

S.42 Associate members

S.43 Procedure as to delimitation

S.43(a) Special provision for delimitation of constituencies of Mizoram Legislative Assembly

S.43(b) Representation of Arunachal Pradesh in the House of the People

S.43(C) Special provisions for delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in Arunachal Pradesh and constituencies of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

S.43(d) Special provision for determination of constituencies in the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

S.43(e) Special provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies

S.43(f) Special provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies on the basis of 2001 census

S.44 Council of Ministers

S.45 Other provisions as to Ministers

S.46 Conduct of business

S.47 Consolidated Fund of the Union territory

S.47(a) Public Account of the Union territory and moneys credited to it

S.48 Contingency Fund of the Union territory

S.48(a) Borrowing upon the security of the Consolidated Fund of Union Territory

S.48(b) Form of accounts of the Union territory

S.49 Audit reports

S.50 Relation of Administrator and his Ministers to President

S.51 Provisions in case of failure of constitutional machinery

S.52 Authorisation of Expenditure by President

S.53 Provisions for election to Parliament from Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry

S.54 Transitional provisions for administration of justice in certain areas in the Union territory of Mizoram

S.54(a) Provision as to provisional Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh

S.55 Contracts and suits

S.56 Power of President to remove difficulties

S.57 Amendment to certain enactments

S.58 Repeal and savings

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