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The
Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
An
Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh and
for matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the
Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Part
I
Preliminary
1. Short title: This Act may be
called the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.
2. Definitions:
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appointed day” means the day which
the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
appoint;
(b) “article” means an article of the
Constitution;
(c) “assembly constituency”, “council
constituency“ and “parliamentary constituency” have the same meanings as in the
Representation of the People Act, 1950;
(d) “Election Commission” means the
Election Commission appointed by the President under article
324;
(e) “existing State of Uttar Pradesh”
means the State of Uttar Pradesh as existing immediately before the appointed
day;
(f) “law” includs any enactment,
ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other
instrument having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in the
whole or in any 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 ratio of
1321:70;
(i) “sitting member”, in relation to
either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh, means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member of
that House;
(j) “successor State”, in relation to
the existing State of Uttar Pradesh, means the State of Uttar Pradesh or
Uttaranchal;
(k) “transferred territory” means the
territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the existing 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 Uttar Pradesh shall be
construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division
on the appointed day.
Part
II
Reorganisation
of the State of Uttar Pradesh
3.
Formation
of Uttaranchal State: On
and from the appointed day, there shall be formed a new State to be known as the
State of Uttaranchal comprising the following territories of the existing State
of Uttar 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.
4.
State of Uttar Pradesh and territorial divisions thereof: On and from the
appointed day, the State of Uttar Pradesh shall comprise the territories of the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh other than those specified in section
3.
5.
Amendment of the First Schedule to the Constitution: On and from the
appointed day, in the First 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”, 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”.
6.
Saving powers of State Government: Nothing in the foregoing provisions of
this Part shall be deemed to affect the power of the Government of Uttar Pradesh
or Uttaranchal to alter, after the appointed day, the name, area or boundaries
of any district or other territorial division in the
State.
Part
III
Representation
in the Legislature
The
Council of States
7.
Amendment
of the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution: On
and from the appointed day, in the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution, in the
Table,
(a)
entries 17 to 28 shall be renumbered as entries 18 to 29
respectively;
(b) in
entry 16, for the figures “34”, the figures “31” shall be
substituted;
(c) after
entry 16, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—
“17. Uttaranchal
...............................................3”.
8.
Allocation of sitting members: (1) On and from the appointed day,
thirty-four sitting members of the Council of States representing the existing
State of Uttar Pradesh shall be deemed to have been elected to fill the seats
allotted to the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, as specified in the
First Schedule to this Act.
(2)
The term of office of such sitting members shall remain
unaltered.
The
House of the People
9.
Representation in the House of the People: On
and from the appointed day, there shall be allocated 80 seats to the successor
State of Uttar Pradesh, and 5 to the successor State of Uttaranchal, in the
House of the People, and the First Schedule to the Representation of the People
Act, 1950 shall be deemed to be amended accordingly.
10.
Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies: On and from
the appointed day, the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies
Order, 1976, shall stand amended as directed in the Second Schedule to this
Act.
11.
Provision
as to sitting members: (1)
Every sitting member of the House of the People representing a constituency
which, on the appointed day by virtue of the provisions of section 10, stands
allotted, with or without alteration of boundaries, to the successor State of
Uttar Pradesh or Uttaranchal, shall be deemed to have been elected to the House
of the People by that constituency as so allotted.
(2)
The term of office of such sitting members shall remain
unaltered.
The
Legislative Assembly
12.
Provisions as to Legislative Assemblies: (1) The number of seats
as on the appointed day in the Legislative Assemblies of the State of Uttar
Pradesh and Uttaranchal shall be four hundred and three and seventy
respectively.
(2)
In the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950, under
heading “I. States”—
(a) entries 25 and 26 shall be
renumbered as entries 26 and 27 respectively;
(b) after entry 24, the following entry
shall be inserted, namely:‑
“1
5
25.
Uttaranchal.....................70”;
(c) in entry 26 as so renumbered, for
the figures “425”, the figures “403” shall be substituted.
13.
Allocation
of sitting members: (1)
Every sitting member of the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh elected to fill a seat in that Assembly from a constituency which on the
appointed day by virtue of the provisions of section 10 stands allotted, with or
without alteration of boundaries, to the State of Uttaranchal shall, on and from
that day, cease to be a member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and
shall be deemed to have been elected to fill a seat in the provisional
Legislative Assembly of Uttaranchal from that constituency as so
allotted.
(2)
All other sitting members of the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of
Uttar Pradesh shall continue to be members of the Legislative Assembly of that
State and any such sitting member representing a constituency the extent or the
name and extent of which are altered by virtue of the provisions of section 10
shall be deemed to have been elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar
Pradesh by that constituency as so altered.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in
any other law for the time being in force the Legislative Assemblies of Uttar
Pradesh and Uttaranchal shall be deemed to be duly constituted on the appointed
day.
(4)
The sitting member of the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh nominated to that Assembly under article 333 to represent the
Anglo-Indian community shall be deemed to have been nominated to represent the
said community in the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh under that
article.
14.
Composition of provisional Legislative Assembly of Uttaranchal:
(1) On and from the appointed day and until the Legislative Assembly
of the successor State of Uttaranchal has been duly constituted and summoned to
meet for the first session under the provisions of the Constitution, a
provisional Legislative Assembly of the State of Uttaranchal, consisting of the
twenty-two sitting members of the Legislative Assembly and nine members of the
Legislative Council of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh representing the
Assembly constituencies or Council constituencies of the territories transferred
by virtue of the provisions of section 3 shall be
constituted.
(2)
The provisional Legislative Assembly of the State of Uttaranchal shall exercise
all the powers and perform all the duties conferred by the provisions of the
Constitution on the Legislative Assembly of that State.
(3)
The term of office of the members of the provisional Legislative Assembly of the
State of Uttaranchal shall, unless the said Legislative Assembly is sooner
dissolved, expire immediately before the first meeting of the Legislative
Assembly of the State of Uttaranchal.
15.
Duration
of Legislative Assemblies: The
period of five years referred to in clause (1) of article 172 shall, in
the case of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Uttar Pradesh, be deemed to
have commenced on the date on which it actually commenced in the case of the
Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh.
16.
Speaker
and Deputy Speaker: (1)
The persons who immediately before the appointed day are the Speaker and Deputy
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall
continue to be the Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively of that Assembly on
and from that day.
(2)
As soon as may be after the appointed day, the provisional Legislative Assembly
of the successor State of Uttaranchal shall choose two members of that Assembly
to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and until they are so
chosen, the duties of the office of Speaker shall be performed by such member of
the Assembly as the Governor may appoint for the purpose.
17.
Rules
of procedure: The
rules of procedure and conduct of business of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar
Pradesh as in force immediately before the appointed day shall, until rules are
made under clause (1) of article 208, be the rules of procedure and
conduct of business of the Legislative Assembly of Uttaranchal, subject to such
modifications and adaptations as may be made therein by the Speaker
thereof.
The
Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh
18.
Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh: On and from the appointed day,
there shall be ninety-nine seats in the Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh,
and in the Third Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950, for the
existing entry 8, the following entry shall be substituted,
namely:—
“8.
Uttar Pradesh...........................99
36 8 8
37
10”.
19.
Amendment
of the Delimitation of Council Constituencies: On
and from the appointed day, the Delimitation of the Council Constituencies
(Uttar Pradesh) order, 1951 shall stand amended as directed in the Third
Schedule.
20.
Provision
as to certain sitting members:
(1) On and from the appointed day, the sitting members of the Legislative
Council of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh specified in the Fourth Schedule
to this Act shall cease to be members of that Council and shall be deemed to be
the members of the provisional Legislative Assembly.
(2)
On and from the appointed day, all sitting members of the Legislative Council of
the existing State of Uttar Pradesh other than those referred to in sub-section
(1) shall continue to be members of that Council.
(3)
The term of office of the members referred to in sub-section (2) shall remain
unaltered.
21.
Deputy Chairman: The person who immediately before the appointed day is
the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh shall continue to be the Deputy Chairman, on and from that day of that
Council.
Delimitation
of constituencies
22.
Delimitation
of constituencies: (1)
For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of section 12, the Election
Commission shall determine in the manner hereinafter
provided—
(a) the number of seats to be reserved
for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assemblies
of the State of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, respectively, having regard to
the relevant provisions of the Constitution;
(b) the assembly constituencies into
which each State referred to in clause (a) shall be divided, the extent
of each of such constituencies and in which of them seats shall be reserved for
the Scheduled Castes or for the Scheduled Tribes; and
(c) the adjustments in the boundaries
and description of the extent of the parliamentary constituencies in each State
referred to in clause (a) that may be necessary or
expedient.
(2)
In determining the matters referred to in clauses (b) and (c) of
sub-section (1), the Election Commission shall have regard to the
following provisions; namely:—
(a) all the constituencies shall be
single-member constituencies;
(b) all constituencies shall, as far as
practicable, be geographically compact areas, and in delimiting them, regard
shall be had to physical features, existing boundaries of administrative units,
facilities of communication and conveniences to the public;
and
(c) constituencies in which seats are
reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall, as far as
practicable, be located in areas where the proportion of their population to the
total population is the largest.
(3) The Election Commission shall, for the
purpose of assisting it in the performance of its functions under sub-section
(1), associate with itself as associate members, five persons as the Central
Government may by order specify, being persons who are the members of the
Legislative Assembly of the State or of the House of the People representing the
State:
Provided
that none of the associate members shall have a right to vote or to sign any
decision of the Election Commission.
(4)
If, owing to death or resignation, the office of an associate member falls
vacant, it shall be filled as far as practicable, in accordance with the
provisions of sub-section (3).
(5)
The Election Commission shall—
(a) publish its proposals for the
delimitation of constituencies together with the dissenting proposals, if any,
of any associate member who desires publication thereof in the Official Gazette
and in such other manner as the Commission may consider fit. together with a
notice inviting objections and suggestions in relation to the proposals and
specifying a date on or after which the proposals will be further considered by
it;
(b) consider all objections and
suggestions which may have been received by it before the date so specified;
and
(c) after considering all objection and
suggestions which may have been received by it before the date so specified,
determine by one or more orders the delimitation of constituencies and cause
such order or orders to be published in the Official Gazette; and upon such
publication, the order or orders shall have the full force of law and shall not
be called in question in any court.
(6)
As soon as may be after such publication, every such order relating to assembly
constituencies shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly of the concerned
State.
23.
Power of Election Commission to maintain Delimitation Orders up-to-date:
(1) The Election Commission may, from time to time, by notification in
the Official Gazette,—
(a) correct any printing mistakes in
any order made under section 22 or any error arising therein from inadvertent
slip or omission; and
(b) where the boundaries or name of any
territorial division mentioned in any such order or orders is or are altered,
make such amendments as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for bringing
such order up-to date.
(2) Every notification under this section
relating to an assembly constituency shall be laid, as soon as may be after it
is issued, before the concerned Legislative Assembly.
Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes
24.
Amendment of the Scheduled Castes Order:
On and from the appointed day, the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950,
shall stand amended as directed in the Fifth Schedule to this
Act.
25.
Amendment of the Schedule Tribes Order: On and from the appointed day,
the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, shall stand amended as directed
in the Sixth Schedule to this Act.
Part
IV
High
Court
26.
High Court of Uttaranchal: (1) As from the appointed day, there
shall be a separate High Court for the State of Uttaranchal (hereinafter
referred to as “the High Court of Uttaranchal”) and the High Court of Judicature
at Allahabad shall become the High Court for the State of Uttar Pradesh
(hereinafter referred to as the High Court at Allahabad).
(2)
The principal seat of the High Court of Uttaranchal shall be at such place as
the President may, by notified order, appoint.
(3)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), the Judges and
division courts of the High Court of Uttaranchal may sit at such other place or
places in the State of Uttaranchal other than its principal seat as the Chief
Justice may, with the approval of the Governor of Uttaranchal,
appoint.
27.
Judges
of Uttaranchal High Court:
(1) Such of the Judges of the High Court at Allahabad holding office
immediately before the appointed day as may be determined by the President shall
on that day cease to be Judges of the High Court at Allahabad and become Judges
of the High Court of Uttaranchal.
(2)
The persons who by virtue of sub-section (1) become Judges of the High
Court of Uttaranchal shall, except in the case where any such person is
appointed to be the Chief Justice of that High Court, rank in that Court
according to the priority of their respective appointments as Judges of the High
Court at Allahabad.
28.
Jurisdiction of Uttaranchal High Court: The High Court of Uttaranchal
shall have, in respect of any part of the territories included in the State of
Uttaranchal, all such jurisdiction, powers and authority as, under the law in
force immediately before the appointed day, are exercisable in respect of that
part of the said territories by the High Court at
Allahabad.
29.
Special provision relating to Bar Council and advocates: (1) On
and from the appointed day, in the Advocates Act, 1961, in section 3, in
sub-section (1), in clause (a), for the words “and Uttar Pradesh”, the
words “Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal” shall be
substituted.
(2)
Any person who immediately before the appointed day is an advocate on the roll
of the Bar Council of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh may give his option in
writing, within one year from the appointed day to the Bar Council of such
existing State, to transfer his name on the roll of the Bar Council of
Uttaranchal and notwithstanding anything contained in the Advocates Act, 1961
and the rules made thereunder, on such option so given his name shall be deemed
to have been transferred on the roll of the Bar Council of Uttaranchal with
effect from the date of the option so given for the purposes of the said Act and
the rules made thereunder.
(3)
The persons other than the advocates who are entitled immediately before the
appointed day, to practise in the High Court at Allahabad or any subordinate
court thereof shall, on and after the appointed day, be recognised as such
persons entitled also to practise in the High Court of Uttaranchal or any
subordinate court thereof, as the case may be.
(4)
The right of audience in the High Court of Uttaranchal shall be regulated in
accordance with the like principles as immediately before the appointed day are
in force with respect to the right of audience in the High Court at
Allahabad.
30.
Practice and procedure in Uttaranchal High Court:
Subject to the provisions of this Part, the law in force immediately before the
appointed day with respect to practice and procedure in the High Court at
Allahabad shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to the High
Court of Uttaranchal, and accordingly, the High Court of Uttaranchal shall have
all such powers to make rules and orders with respect to practice and procedure
as are immediately before the appointed day exercisable by the High Court at
Allahabad:
Provided
that any rules or orders which are in force immediately before the appointed day
with respect to practice and procedure in the High Court at Allahabad shall,
until varied or revoked by rules or orders made by the High Court of
Uttaranchal, apply with the necessary modifications in relation to practice and
procedure in the High Court of Uttaranchal as if made by the
Court.
31. Custody
of seal of Uttaranchal High Court: The
law in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to the custody of
the seal of the High Court at Allahabad shall, with the necessary modifications,
apply with respect to the custody of the seal of the High Court of
Uttaranchal.
32. Form of writs and other
processes:
The law in force immediately before the appointed day with respect to the form
of writes and other processes used, issued or awarded by the High Court at
Allahabad shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to the
form of writs and other processes used, issued or awarded by the High Court of
Uttaranchal.
33.
Powers of Judges: The law in force immediately before the appointed day
relating to the powers of the Chief Justice, single Judges and division courts
of the High Court at Allahabad and with respect to all matters ancillary to the
exercise of those powers shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in
relation to the High Court of Uttaranchal.
34.
Procedure
as to appeals to Supreme Court:
The law in force immediately before the appointed day relating to appeals to the
Supreme Court from the High Court at Allahabad and the Judges and division
courts thereof shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to the
High Court of Uttaranchal.
35.
Transfer
of proceedings from Allahabad High Court to Uttaranchal High
Court:
(1) Except as hereinafter provided, the High Court at Allahabad shall, as
from the appointed day, have no jurisdiction in respect of the transferred
territory.
(2)
Such proceedings pending in the High Court at Allahabad immediately before the
appointed day as are certified, whether before or after that day, by the Chief
Justice of that High Court, having regard to the place of accrual of the cause
of action and other circumstances, to be proceedings which ought to be heard and
decided by the High Court of Uttaranchal shall, as soon as may be after such
certification, be transferred to the High Court of
Uttaranchal.
(3)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) of this
section or in section 28, but save as hereinafter provided, the High Court at
Allahabad shall have, and the High Court of Uttaranchal shall not have,
jurisdiction to entertain, hear or dispose of appeals, applications for leave to
the Supreme Court, applications for review and other proceedings where any such
proceedings seek any relief in respect of any order passed by the High Court at
Allahabad before the appointed day:
Provided
that if after any such proceedings have been entertained by the High Court at
Allahabad, it appears to the Chief Justice of that High Court that they ought to
be transferred to the High Court of Uttaranchal, he shall order that they shall
be so transferred, and such proceedings shall thereupon be transferred
accordingly.
(4)
Any order made by the High Court at Allahabad—
(a) before the appointed day, in any
proceedings transferred to the High Court of Uttaranchal by virtue of
sub-section (2), or
(b) in any proceedings with respect to
which the High Court at Allahabad retains jurisdiction by virtue of sub-section
(3),
shall
for all purposes have effect, not only as an order of the High Court at
Allahabad, but also as an order made by the High Court of
Uttaranchal.
36.
Right to appear or to act in proceedings transferred to Uttaranchal High
Court: Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an advocate
entitled to practise or any other persons entitled to practise in the High Court
at Allahabad and was authorised to appear in any proceedings transferred from
that High Court to the High Court of Uttaranchal under section 35, shall have
the right to appear in the High Court of Uttaranchal in relations to those
proceedings.
37.
Interpretation:
For the purposes of section 35—
(a) proceedings shall be deemed to be
pending in a court until that court has disposed of all issues between the
parties, including any issues with respect to the taxation of the costs of the
proceeding and shall include appeals, applications for leave to appeal to the
Supreme Court, applications for review, petitions for revision and petitions for
writs; and
(b) references to a High Court shall be
construed as including references to a Judge or division court thereof, and
references to an order made by a court or a Judge shall be construed as
including references to a sentence, judgment or decree passed or made by that
court or Judge.
38.
Saving: Nothing in this Part shall affect the application to the High
Court of Uttaranchal of any provisions of the Constitution, and this Part shall
have effect subject to any provision that may be made on or after the appointed
day with respect to that High Court by any Legislature or other authority having
power to make such provision.
Part
V
Authorisation
of Expenditure and Distribution of Revenues
39.
Authorisation of expenditure of Uttaranchal State: The Governor of
Uttar Pradesh may, at any time before the appointed day, authorise such
expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State of Uttaranchal as he deems
necessary for any period not more than six months beginning with the appointed
day pending the sanction of such expenditure by the Legislative Assembly of the
State of Uttaranchal:
Provided
that the Governor of Uttaranchal may, after the appointed day, authorise such
further expenditure as he deems necessary from the Consolidated Fund of the
State of Uttaranchal for any period not extending beyond the said period of six
months.
40.
Reports
relating to accounts of Uttar Pradesh State: (1)
The reports of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India referred to in
clause (2) of article 151 relating to the accounts of the existing State
of Uttar Pradesh in respect of any period prior to the appointed day shall be
submitted to the Governor of each of the successor State of Uttar Pradesh and
Uttaranchal who shall cause them to be laid before the Legislature of that
State.
(2)
The President may by order—
(a) declare any expenditure incurred
out of the Consolidated Fund of Uttar Pradesh on any service in respect of any
period prior to the appointed day during the financial year or in respect of any
earlier financial year in excess of the amount granted for that service and for
that year as disclosed in the reports referred to in sub-section (1) to
have been duly authorised; and
(b) provide for any action to be taken
on any matter arising out of the said reports.
41.
Distribution of revenue: The President shall, by order, determine the
share of the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in its total amount payable
to the existing State of Uttar Pradesh on the recommendation of the Finance
Commission constituted under article 280 of the Constitution, in such manner as
he thinks fit.
Part
VI
Apportionment
of Assets and Liabilities
42.
Application
of Part: (1)
The provisions of this Part shall apply in relation to the apportionment of the
assets and liabilities of the State of Uttar Pradesh immediately before the
appointed day.
(2)
The successor State shall be entitled to receive benefits arising out of the
decisions taken by the predecessor State and the successor States shall be
liable to bear the financial liabilities arising out of the decisions taken by
the existing State of Uttar Pradesh.
(3)
The apportionment of assets and liabilities would be subject to such financial
adjustment as may be necessary to secure just, reasonable and equitable
apportionment of the assets and liabilities amongst the successor
States.
(4)
Any dispute regarding the amount of financial assets and liabilities shall be
settled through mutual agreement, failing which by order by the Central
Government on the advice of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of
India.
43.
Land and goods: (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Part,
all land and all stores, articles and other goods belonging to the existing
State of Uttar Pradesh shall,—
(a) if within the transferred
territory, pass to the State of Uttaranchal; or
(b) in any other case, remain the
property of the State of Uttar Pradesh:
Provided
that where the Central Government is of opinion that any goods or class of goods
should be distributed among the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal,
otherwise than according to the situation of the goods, the Central Government
may issue such directions as it thinks fit for a just and equitable distribution
of the goods and the goods shall pass to the successor States
accordingly:
Provided
further that in case of any dispute relating to the distribution of any goods or
class of goods under this sub-section the Central Government shall endeavour to
settle such dispute through mutual agreement arrived at between the Governments
of the successor States for that purpose, failing which the Central Government
may, on request by any of the Governments of the Successor States, after
consulting both the Governments of the successor States, issue such direction as
it may deem fit for the distribution of such goods or class of goods, as the
case may be, under this sub-section.
(2)
Stores held for specific purposes, such as use or utilisation in particular
institutions, workshops or undertakings or on particular works under
construction, shall pass to the successor States in whose territories such
institutions, workshops, undertakings or works are
located.
(3)
Stores relating to the Secretariat and offices of Heads of Departments having
jurisdiction over the whole of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall be
divided between the successor States in accordance with such direction as the
Central Government may, after consultation with the Government of each successor
States, think fit to issue for a just and equitable distribution of such
stores.
(4)
Any other unissued stores of any class in the existing State of Uttar Pradesh
shall be divided between the successor States in proportion to the total stores
of that class purchased in the period of three years prior to the appointed day,
for the territories of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh included respectively
in each of the successor States:
Provided
that where such proportion cannot be ascertained in respect of any class of
stores or where the value of any class of such stores does not exceed rupees ten
thousand, that class of stores shall be divided between the successor States
according to the population ratio.
(5)
In this section, the expression “land” includes immovable property of every kind
and any rights in or over such property, and the expression “goods” does not
include coins, bank notes and currency notes.
44.
Treasury and bank balances: The total of the cash balances in all
treasuries of the State of Uttar Pradesh and the credit balances of the State
with Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of India or any other bank
immediately before the appointed day shall be divided between the States of
Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal according to the population
ratio:
Provided
that for the purposes of such division, there shall be no transfer of cash
balances from any treasury to any other treasury and the apportionment shall be
effected by adjusting the credit balances of the two States in the books of the
Reserve Bank of India on the appointed day:
Provided
further that if the State of Uttaranchal has no account on the appointed day
with the Reserve Bank of India, the adjustment shall be made in such manner as
the Central Government may, by order, direct.
45.
Arrears of taxes: The right to recover arrears of any tax or duty on
property, including arrears of land revenue, shall belong to the successor State
in which the property is situated, and the right to recover arrears of any other
tax or duty shall belong to the successor State in whose territories the place
of assessment of that tax or duty is included on the appointed
day.
46.
Right to recover loans and advances: (1) The right of the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh to recover any loans or advances made before the
appointed day to any local body, society, agriculturist or other person in an
area within that State shall belong to the successor State in which that area is
included on that day.
(2)
The right of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh to recover any loans or
advances made before the appointed day to any person or institution outside that
State shall belong to the State of Uttar Pradesh:
Provided
that any sum recovered in respect of any such loan or advance shall be divided
between the State of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal according to the population
ratio.
47.
Investments
and credits in certain funds: The
securities held in respect of the investments made from Cash Balances Investment
Account or from any Fund in the Public Account of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh as specified in the Seventh Schedule shall be apportioned in the ratio
of population of the successor States:
Provided
that the securities held in investments made from the Calamity Relief Fund of
the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall be divided in the ratio of the area of
the territories occupied by the successor States:
Provided
further that the balance in the Reserve Funds in the Public Account of Uttar
Pradesh created wholly out of appropriations from the Consolidated Fund of the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh, to the extent the balances have not been
invested outside Government account, shall not be carried forward to similar
Reserve Funds in the Public Account of, successor States.
(2)
The investments of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh immediately before the
appointed day in any special fund the objects of which are confined to a local
area, shall belong to the State in which that area is included on the appointed
day.
(3)
The investments of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh immediately before the
appointed day in any private, commercial or industrial undertaking, in so far as
such investments have not been made or are deemed not to have been made from the
Cash Balance Investment Account, shall pass to the State in which the principal
seat of business of the undertaking is located.
(4)
Where any body corporate constituted under a Central Act, State Act of
Provincial Act for the existing State of Uttar Pradesh or any part thereof has,
by virtue of the provisions of Part II, become an inter-State body corporate,
the investments in, or loans or advances to, any such body corporate by the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh made before the appointed day shall, save as
otherwise expressly provided by or under this Act, be divided between the States
of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the same proportion in which the assets of
the body corporate are divided under the provisions of this
Part.
48.
Assets and liabilities of State Undertaking: (1) The assets and
liabilities relating to any commercial or Industrial undertaking of the State of
Uttar Pradesh shall pass to the State in which the undertaking is
located.
(2)
Where a depreciation reserve fund is maintained by the State of Uttar Pradesh
for any such commercial or industrial undertaking, the securities held in
respect of investments made from that fund shall pass to the State in which the
undertaking is located.
49.
Public Debt: (1) All liabilities on account of Public Debt and
Public Account of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh outstanding immediately
before the appointed day shall be apportioned in the ratio of population of the
successor States unless a different mode of apportionment is provided under the
provisions of this Act.
(2)
The individual items of liabilities to be allocated to the successor States and
the amount of contribution required to be made by one successor State to another
shall be such as may be ordered by the Central Government in consultation with
the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India:
Provided
that till such orders are issued, the liabilities on account of Public Debt and
Public Account of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall continue to be the
liabilities of the successor State of Uttar Pradesh.
(3)
The liability on account of loans raised from any source and re-lent by the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh to such entities as may be specified by the
Central Government and whose area of operation is confined to either of the
successor States shall devolve on the respective States as specified in
sub-section (4).
(4)
The Public Debt of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh attributable to loan
taken from any source for the express purpose of re-lending the same to a
specific institution and outstanding immediately before the appointed day
shall,—
(a) if re-lent to any local body, body
corporate or other institution in any local area, be the debt of the State in
which the local area is included on the appointed day; or
(b) if re-lent to the Uttar Pradesh
Power Corporation Limited, the Uttar Pradesh Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited, the Uttar
Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, the Uttar Pradesh State Road
Transport Corporation, or the Uttar Pradesh Housing Board or any other
institution which becomes an inter-State institution on the appointed day, be
divided between the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the same
proportion in which the assets of such body corporate or institution are divided
under the provisions of Part VII.
(5)
Where a sinking fund or a depreciation fund is maintained by the existing State
of Uttar Pradesh for repayment of any loan raised by it, the securities held in
respect of investments made from that fund shall be divided between the
successor States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the same proportion in
which the total public debt is divided between the two States under this
section.
(6)
In this section, the expression “Government security” means a security created
and issued by a State Government for the purpose of raising a public loan and
having any of the forms specified in, or prescribed under clause (2) of
section 2 of the Public Debt Act, 1944.
50.
Floating Debt: All liabilities of the State of Uttar Pradesh of any
floating loan to provide short term finance to any commercial undertaking shall
be liability the State in whose territories the undertaking is
located.
51.
Refund
of taxes collected in excess: The
liability of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh to refund any tax or duty on
property, including land revenue, collected in excess shall be the liability of
the successor State in whose territories the property is situated, and the
liability of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh to refund any other tax or duty
collected in excess shall be the liability of the successor State in whose
territories the place of assessment of that tax or duty is
included.
52.
Deposits, etc.: (1) The liability of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh in respect of any civil deposit or local fund deposit shall, as from the
appointed day, be the liability of the State in whose area the deposit has been
made.
(2)
The liability of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh in respect of any
charitable or other endowment shall, as from the appointed day, be the liability
of the State in whose area the institution entitled to the benefit of the
endowment is located or of the State to which the objects of the endowment,
under the terms thereof, are confined.
53.
Provident
fund: The
liability of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh in respect of the provident
fund account of a Government servant in service on the appointed day shall, as
from that day, be the liability of the State to which that Government servant is
permanently allotted.
54.
Pensions:
The
liability of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh in respect of pensions shall
pass to, or be apportioned between the successor States of Uttar Pradesh and
Uttaranchal in accordance with the provisions contained in the Eighth Schedule
to this Act.
55.
Contracts:
(1)
Where, before the appointed day, the existing State of Uttar Pradesh has made
any contract in the exercise of its executive power for any purposes of the
State, that contract shall be deemed to have been made in the exercise of the
executive power—
(a)
if the purposes of the contract are, on and from the appointed day, exclusive
purposes of either of the successor States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal;
and
(b)
in any other case, of the State of Uttar Pradesh,
and
all rights and liabilities which have accrued, or may accrue under any such
contract shall, to the extent to which they would have been rights or
liabilities of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh, be rights or liabilities of
the State of Uttaranchal or the State of Uttar Pradesh, as the case may
be:
Provided
that in any such case as is referred to in clause (b), the initial
allocation of rights and liabilities made by this sub-section shall be subject
to such financial adjustment as may be agreed upon between the successor States
of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal or in default of such agreement, as the Central
Government may, by order, direct.
(2)
For the purposes of this section, there shall be deemed to be included in the
liabilities which have accrued or may accrue under any
contract—
(a) any liability to satisfy an order
or award made by any court or other tribunal in proceedings relating to the
contract; and
(b) any liability in respect of
expenses incurred in or in connection with any such
proceedings.
(3)
This section shall have effect subject to the other provisions of this Part
relating to the apportionment of liabilities in respect of loans, guarantees and
other financial obligations; and bank balances and securities shall,
notwithstanding that they partake of the nature of contractual rights, be dealt
with under those provisions.
56.
Liability
in respect of actionable wrong: Where,
immediately before the appointed day, the existing State of Uttar Pradesh
subject to any liability in respect of any actionable wrong other than breach of
contract, that liability shall,—
(a) if the cause of action arose wholly
within the territories which, as from that day, are the territories of either of
the successor States of Uttar Pradesh or Uttaranchal, be a liability of that
successor State; and
(b) in any other case, be initially a
liability of the State of Uttar Pradesh, but subject to such financial
adjustment as may be agreed upon between the States of Uttar Pradesh and
Uttaranchal or, in default of such agreement, as the Central Government may, by
order, direct.
57.
Liability
as guarantor: Where,
immediately before the appointed day, the existing State of Uttar Pradesh is
liable as guarantor in respect of any liability of a registered co-operative
society or other person, that liability of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh
shall—
(a) if the area of operations of such
society or persons is limited to the territories which, as from that day, are
the territories of either of the States of Uttar Pradesh or Uttaranchal, be a
liability of that successor State; and
(b) in any other case, be initially a
liability of the State of Uttar Pradesh, subject to such financial adjustment as
may be agreed upon between the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal or, in
default of such agreements, as the Central Government may, by order,
direct.
58.
Items in suspense: If any item in suspense is ultimately found to affect
an asset or liability of the nature referred to in any of the foregoing
provisions of this Part, it shall be dealt with in accordance with that
provision.
59.
Residuary provision: The benefit or burden of any asset or liability of
the existing State of Uttar Pradesh not dealt with in the foregoing provisions
of this Part shall pass to the State of Uttar Pradesh in the first instance,
subject to such financial adjustment as may be agreed upon between the States of
Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal or, in default of such agreement, as the Central
Government may, by order, direct.
60.
Apportionment
of assets or liabilities by agreement: Where
the successor States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal agree that the asset,
liability or benefit or burden of any particular asset or liability should be
apportioned between them in a manner other than that provided for in the
foregoing provisions of this Part, then, notwithstanding anything contained
therein, the assets, liability or benefit or burden of that asset or liability
shall be apportioned in the manner agreed upon.
61.
Power of Central Government to order allocation or adjustment in certain
cases: Where, by virtue of any of the provisions of this Part, any of the
successor States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal becomes entitled to any
property or obtains any benefits or becomes subject to any liability, and the
Central Government is of opinion, on a reference made within a period of three
years from the appointed day by either of the States, that it is just and
equitable that property or those benefits should be transferred to, or shared
with, the other successor State, or that a contribution towards that liability
should be made by the other successor State, the said property or benefits shall
be allocated in such manner between the two States, or the other State shall
make to the State subject to the liability such contribution in respect thereof,
as the Central Government may, after consultation with the two State
Governments, by order determine.
62.
Certain expenditure to be charged on Consolidated Fund: All sums payable
either by the State of Uttar Pradesh or by the State of Uttaranchal to the other
States or by the Central Government to either of those States, by virtue of the
provisions of this Act, shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund of the State
by which such sums are payable or, as the case may be, the Consolidated Fund of
India.
Part
VII
Provisions
as to certain corporations
63.
Provisions
for Power Corporation Limited, etc.: (1)
The following bodies corporate constituted for the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh, namely—
(a) the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation
Limited, the Uttar Pradesh Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited and the Uttar Pradesh Rajya
Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited;
(b) the Uttar Pradesh Electricity
Regulatory Commission; and
(c) the State Warehousing Corporation
established under the Warehousing Corporation Act, 1962,
shall,
on and from the appointed day, continue to function in those areas in respect of
which they were functioning immediately before that day, subject to the
provisions of this section and to such directions as may, from time to time, be
issued by the Central Government.
(2)
Any directions issued by the Central Government under sub-section (1) in
respect of the Power Corporation Commission or Warehousing Corporation shall
include a direction that the Act under which the Power Corporation Commission or
Warehousing Corporation was constituted shall, in its application to that Power
Corporation, Commission or Warehousing Corporation, have effect subject to such
exceptions and modifications as the Central Government thinks
fit.
(3)
The Power Corporation, Commission or Warehousing Corporation referred to in
sub-section (1) shall cease to function as from, and shall be deemed to
be dissolved on such date as the Central Government may, by order, appoint; and
upon such dissolution, its assets, rights and liabilities shall be apportioned
between the successor States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in such manner as
may be agreed upon between them within one year of the dissolution of the Power
Corporation, Commission or Warehousing Corporation, as the case may be, or if no
agreement is reached, in such manner as the Central Government may, by order,
determine:
Provided
that any liabilities of the said Power Corporation referred to in clause
(a) of sub-section (1) relating to the unpaid dues of the coal
supplied to the Power Corporation by any public sector coal company shall be
provisionally apportioned between the corresponding Power Corporation
constituted respectively in the successor States of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh or after the date appointed for the dissolution of the Power Corporation
under this sub-section in such manner as may be agreed upon between the
Governments of the successor States within one month of such dissolution or if
no agreement is reached, in such manner as the Central Government may, by order,
determine subject to reconciliation and finalisation of the liabilities which
shall be completed within three months from the date of such dissolution by the
mutual agreement between the successor States or failing such agreement by the
direction of the Central Government:
Provided
further that an interest at the rate of two per cent, higher than the Cash
Credit interest shall be paid on outstanding unpaid dues of the coal supplied to
the Electricity Corporation by the public sector coal company till the
liquidation of such dues by the concerned State Power Corporation constituted in
the successor States on or after the date appointed for the dissolution of the
Power Corporation under this sub-section.
(4)
Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall be construed as
preventing the Government of the State of Uttar Pradesh or, as the case may be,
the Government of the State of Uttaranchal from constituting, at any time on or
after the appointed day, a State Power Corporation, an Electricity Regulatory
Commission or a State Warehousing Corporation for the State under the provisions
of the Act relating to such Power Corporation, Commission or Warehousing
Corporation; and if such a Power Corporation, Commission or Warehousing
Corporation is so constituted in either of the States before the dissolution of
the Power Corporation, Commission or Warehousing Corporation referred to in
sub-section (1),—
(a) provision may be made by order of
the Central Government enabling the new Power Corporation, New Commission or the
new Warehousing Corporation to take over from the existing Power Corporation,
Commission or Warehousing Corporation all or any of its undertakings, assets,
rights and liabilities in that State, and
(b) upon the dissolution of existing
Power Corporation, Commission or Warehousing Corporation,—
(i)
any assets, rights and liabilities which would otherwise have passed to that
State by or under the provisions of sub-section (3) shall pass to the new
Board, new Commission or the new Warehousing Corporation instead of to that
State;
(ii)
any employee who would otherwise have been transferred to or re-employed by that
State under sub-section (3), read with clause (i) of sub-section
(5), shall be transferred to or re-employed by the new Power Corporation,
new Commission or the new Warehousing Corporation instead of to or by that
State.
(5)
An agreement entered into between the successor States under sub-section
(3) and an order made by the Central Government under that sub-section or
under clause (a) of sub-section (4) may provide for the transfer
or re-employment of any employee of the Power Corporation, Commission or
Warehousing Corporation referred to in sub-section
(1),—
(i) to or by the successor States, in
the case of an agreement under sub-section (2) or an order made under the
sub-section;
(ii) to or by the new Power Corporation,
new Commission or the new Warehousing Corporation constituted under sub-section
(4), in the case of an order made under clause (a) of that
sub-section,
and,
subject to the provisions of section 68, also for the terms and conditions of
service applicable to such employees after such transfer or
re-employment.
64.
Continuance
of arrangements in regard to generation and supply of electric power and supply
of water: If
it appears to the Central Government that the arrangement in regard to the
generation or supply of electric power or the supply of water for any area or in
regard to the execution of any project for such generation or supply has been or
is likely to be modified to the disadvantage of that area by reason of the fact
that it is, by virtue of the provisions of Part II, outside the State in which
the power stations and other installations for the generation and supply of such
power, or the catchment area, reservoirs and other works for the supply of
water, as the case may be, are located, the Central Government may, after
consultation with the Government of each successor States wherever necessary,
give such directions as it deems proper to the State Government or other
authority concerned for the maintenance, so far as practicable, of the previous
arrangement.
65.
Provisions as to Uttar Pradesh State Financial Corporation: (1)
The Uttar Pradesh State Financial Corporation established under the State
Financial Corporations Act, 1951 shall, on and from the appointed day, continue
to function in those areas in respect of which it was functioning immediately
before that day, subject to the provisions of this section and to such
directions as may from time to time, be issued by the Central
Government.
(2)
Any directions issued by the Central Government under sub-section (1) in
respect of the Corporation may include a direction that the said Act, in its
application to the Corporation, shall have effect subject to such exceptions and
modifications as may be specified in the direction.
(3)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or sub-section
(2), the Board of Directors of the Corporation may, with the previous
approval of the Central Government and shall, if so required by the Central
Government, convene at any time after the appointed day a meeting for the
consideration of a scheme for the reconstitution or reorganisation or
dissolution, as the case may be, of the Corporation, including proposals
regarding the formation of new Corporations, and the transfer thereto of the
assets, rights and liabilities of the existing Corporation, and if such a scheme
is approved at the general meeting by a resolution passed by a majority of the
shareholders present and voting, the scheme shall be submitted to the Central
Government for its sanction.
(4)
If the scheme is sanctioned by the Central Government either without
modifications or with modifications which are approved at a general meeting, the
Central Government shall certify the scheme, and upon such certification, the
scheme shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other
law for the time being in force, be binding on the corporations affected by the
scheme as well as the shareholders and creditors thereof.
(5)
If the scheme is not so approved or sanctioned, the Central Government may refer
the scheme to such Judge of the High Court of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal as
may be nominated in this behalf by the Chief Justice thereof, and the decision
of the Judge in regard to the scheme shall be final and shall be binding on the
Corporations affected by the scheme as well as the shareholders and creditors
thereof.
(6)
Nothing in the preceding provisions of this section shall be construed as
preventing the Government of the State of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal from
constituting, at any time on or after the appointed day, a State Financial
Corporation for that State under the State Financial Corporations Act,
1951.
66.
Provisions as to certain companies: (1) Notwithstanding anything
contained in the foregoing provisions of this Part, each of the companies
specified in the Ninth Schedule to this Act shall, on and from the appointed day
and until otherwise provided for in any law, or in any agreement among the
successor States, or in any direction issued by the Central Government, continue
to function in the areas in which it was functioning immediately before that
day, and the Central Government may from time to time issue such directions in
relation to such functioning as it may deem fit, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in the Companies Act, 1956, or in any other
law..
(2)
Any directions issued under sub-section (1) in respect of a company
referred in that sub-section, may include directions—
(a) regarding the division of the
interests and shares of existing State of Uttar Pradesh in the Company among the
successor States:
(b) requiring the reconstitution of the
Board of Directors of the Company so as to give adequate representation to all
the successor States.
67.
General
provision as to statutory corporations: (1)
Save as otherwise expressly provided by the foregoing provisions of this Part,
where any body corporate constituted under a Central Act, State Act or
Provisional Act for the existing State of Uttar Pradesh or any part thereof has,
by virtue of the provisions of Part II, become an inter-State body corporate,
then, the body corporate shall, on and from the appointed day, continue to
function and operate in those areas in respect of which it was functioning and
operating immediately before that day, subject to such directions as may from
time to time be issued by the Central Government, until other provision is made
by law in respect of the said body corporate.
(2)
Any directions issued by the Central Government under sub-section (1) in
respect of any such body corporate shall include a direction that any law by
which the said body corporate is governed shall, in its application to that body
corporate, have effect subject to such exceptions and modifications as may be
specified in the direction.
68.
Temporary
provisions as to continuance of certain existing road transport
permits:
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 89 of the Motor
Vehicles Act, 1988, a permit granted by the State Transport Authority of the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh or any Regional Transport Authority in that
State shall, if such permit was, immediately before the appointed day, valid and
effective in any area in the transferred territory, be deemed to continue to be
valid and effective in that area after that day subject to the provisions of
that Act as for the time being in force in that area; and it shall not be
necessary for any such permit to be countersigned by the State Transport
Authority of Uttaranchal or any Regional Transport Authority therein for the
purpose of validating it for use in such area:
Provided
that the Central Government may, after consultation with the successor State
Government or Government concerned add to, amend or vary the conditions attached
to the permit by the Authority by which the permit was
granted.
(2)
No tolls, entrance fees or other charges of a like nature shall be levied after
the appointed day in respect of any transport vehicle for its operations in any
of the successor States under any such permit, if such vehicle was, immediately
before that day, exempt from the payment of any such toll, entrance fees or
other charges for its operations in the transferred
territory:
Provided
that the Central Government may, after consultation with the State Government or
Governments concerned, authorise the levy of any such toll, entrance fees or
other charges, as the case may be:
Provided
further that the provisions of this sub-section shall not be applicable where
any such tolls, entrance fees or other charges of a like nature is leviable for
the use of any road or bridge which is constructed or developed for commercial
purpose by the State Government, an undertaking of the State Government, a joint
undertaking in which the State Government is a shareholder or a private
sector.
69.
Special
provisions relating to retrenchment compensation in certain cases:
Where
on account of the reorganisation of the existing state of Uttar Pradesh under
this Act, any body corporate constituted under a Central Act, State Act or
Provincial Act, any co-operative society registered under any law relating to
co-operative societies or any commercial or industrial undertaking of that State
is reconstituted or reorganised in any manner whatsoever or is amalgamated with
any other body corporate, co-operative society or undertaking, or is dissolved,
and in consequence of such reconstitution, reorganisation, amalgamation or
dissolution, any workman employed by such body corporate or in any such
co-operative society or undertaking, is transferred to, or re-employed by any
other body corporate, or in any other co-operative society or undertaking, then
notwithstanding anything contained in section 25F, section 25FF or section 25FFF
of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, such transfer or re-employment shall not
entitle him to any compensation under that section:
Provided
that—
(a) the terms and conditions of service
applicable to the workman after such transfer or re-employment are not less
favourable to the workman than those applicable to him immediately before the
transfer or re-employment;
(b) the employer in relation to the
body corporate, the co-operative society or the undertaking where the workman is
transferred or re-employed is, by agreement or otherwise, legally liable to pay
to the workman, in the event of his retrenchment, compensation under section
25F, section 25FF or section 25FFF of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 on the
basis that his service has been continuous and has not been interrupted by the
transfer or re-employment.
70.
Special provisions as to income-tax: Where the assets, rights and
liabilities of any body corporate carrying on business are, under the provisions
of this Part , transferred to any other bodies corporate which after the
transfer carry on the same business, the losses or profits or gains sustained by
the body corporate first mentioned which, but for such transfer, would have been
allowed to be carried forward and set off in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter VI of the Income-tax Act, 1961, shall be apportioned amongst the
transferee bodies corporate in accordance with the rules to be made by the
Central Government in this behalf and, upon such apportionment, the share of
loss allotted to each transferee body corporate shall be dealt with in
accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI of the said Act, as if the
transferee body corporate had itself sustained such loss in a business carried
on by it in the years in which these losses were
sustained.
71.
Continuance of facilities in certain State institutions: (1) The
Government of State of Uttar Pradesh or Uttaranchal, as the case may be, shall,
in respect of the institutions specified in the Tenth Schedule to this Act,
located in that State, continue to provide facilities to the people of the other
State which shall not, in any respect, be less favourable to such people than
what were being provided to them before the appointed day, for such period and
upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the two State
Governments before the 1st day of December, 2001 of if no agreement is reached
by the said date as may be fixed by order of the Central
Government.
(2)
The Central Government may, at any time before the 1st day of December, 2001, by
notification in the Official Gazette, specify in the Tenth Schedule referred to
in sub- section (1) any other institution existing on the appointed day
in the State of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal and on the issue of such
notification, the Schedule shall be deemed to be amended by the inclusion of the
said institution therein.
Part
VIII
Provisions
as to Services
72.
Provisions relating to All-India Services: (1) In this section,
the expression “State cadre”—
(a) in relation to the Indian
Administrative Service, has the meaning assigned to it in the Indian
Administrative Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954;
(b) in relation to the Indian Police
Service, has the meaning assigned to it in the Indian Police Service (Cadre)
Rules, 1954;
(c) in relation to the Indian Forest
Service, has the meaning assigned to it in the Indian Forest Service (Cadre)
Rules, 1966.
(2)
In place of the cadres of the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police
Service and Indian Forest Service for the existing State of Uttar Pradesh, there
shall, on and from the appointed day, be two separate cadres, one for the State
of Uttar Pradesh and the other for the State of Uttaranchal in respect of each
of these services.
(3)
The initial strength and composition of the State cadres referred to in
sub-section (2) shall be such as the Central Government may, by order,
determine before the appointed day.
(4)
The members of each of the said service borne on the Uttar Pradesh cadre thereof
immediately before the appointed day shall be allocated to the State cadres of
the same service constituted under sub-section (2) in such manner and
with effect from such date or dates as the Central Government may, by order,
specify.
(5)
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the operation, on or after the
appointed day, of the All-India Service Act, 1951, or the rules made
thereunder.
73.
Provisions relating to other services: (1) Every person who
immediately before the appointed day is serving in connection with the affairs
of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall, on and from that day provisionally
continue to serve in connection with the affairs of the State of Uttar Pradesh
unless he is required, by general or special order of the Central Government to
serve provisionally in connection with the affairs of the State of
Uttaranchal:
Provided
that every direction under this sub-section issued after the expiry of a period
of one year from the appointed day shall be issued with the consultation of the
Governments of the successor States.
(2)
As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Central Government shall, by
general or special order, determine the successor State to which every person
referred to in sub-section (1) shall be finally allotted for service and
the date with effect from which such allotment shall take effect or be deemed to
have taken effect.
(3)
Every person who is finally allotted under the provisions of sub-section
(2) to a successor State shall, if he is not already serving therein be
made available for serving in the successor State from such date as may be
agreed upon between the Governments concerned or in default of such agreement,
as may be determined by the Central Government.
74.
Other
provisions relating to services: (1)
Nothing in this section or in section 73 shall be deemed to affect on or after
the appointed day the operation of the provisions of Chapter I of Part XIV of
the Constitution in relation to determination of the conditions of service of
persons serving in connection with the affairs of the Union or any
State:
Provided
that the conditions of service applicable immediately before the appointed day
in the case of any person deemed to have been allocated to the State of Uttar
Pradesh or to the State of Uttaranchal under section 73 shall not be varied to
his disadvantage except with the previous approval of the Central
Government.
(2)
All services prior the appointed day rendered by a person—
(a) if he is deemed to have been
allocated to any State under section 73, shall be deemed to have been rendered
in connection with the affairs of that State;
(b) if he is deemed to have been
allocated to the Union in connection with the administration of the Uttaranchal
shall be deemed to have been rendered in connection with the affairs of the
union,
for
the purposes of the rules regulating his conditions of
service.
(3)
The provisions of section 73, shall not apply in relation to members of any
All-India Service.
75.
Provisions
as to continuance of officers in same post: (1)
Every person who, immediately before the appointed day is holding or discharging
duties of any post or office in connection with the affairs of the existing
State of Uttar Pradesh in any area which on that day falls within any of the
successor States shall continue to hold the same post or office in that
successor State, and shall be deemed on and from that day, to have been duly
appointed to the post or office by the Government of, or any other appropriate
authority in, that successor State:
Provided
that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent a competent authority,
on and from the appointed day, from passing in relation to such person any order
affecting the continuance in such post or office.
76.
Advisory
Committees: The
Central Government may, by order establish one or more Advisory Committees for
the purpose of assisting it in regard to—
(a)
the discharge of any of its functions under this Part; and
(b)
the ensuring of fair and equitable treatment to all persons affected by the
provisions of this Part and the proper consideration of any representations made
by such persons.
77.
Power
of Central Government to give directions: The
Central Government may, give such direction to the State Government of Uttar
Pradesh and the State Government of Uttaranchal as may appear to it to be
necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the foregoing provisions of this
Part and the State Government shall comply with such
directions.
78.
Provisions as to State Public Service Commission: (1) The Public
Service Commission for the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall, on and from
the appointed day, be the Public Service Commission for the State of Uttar
Pradesh.
(2)
The persons holding office immediately before the appointed day as Chairman or
other member of the Public Service Commission for the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh shall, as from the appointed day, be the Chairman or, as the case may
be, the other member of the Public Service Commission for the State of Uttar
Pradesh.
(3)
Every person who becomes Chairman or other member of the Public Service
Commission for the State of Uttar Pradesh on the appointed day under sub-section
(2), shall—
(a) be entitled to receive from the
Government of the State of Uttar Pradesh conditions of service not less
favourable than those to which he was entitled under the provisions applicable
to him;
(b) subject to the proviso to clause
(2) of article 316, hold office or continue to hold office until the expiration
of his term of office as determined under the provisions applicable to him
immediately before the appointed day.
(4) The report of the Uttar Pradesh Public
Service Commission as to the work done by the Commission in respect of any
period prior to the appointed day shall be presented under clause (2) of
article 323 to the Governors of the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, and
the Governor of the State of Uttar Pradesh shall, on receipt of such report,
cause a copy thereof together with a memorandum explaining as far as possible,
as respects the cases, if any, where the advice of the Commission was not
accepted, the reasons for such non-acceptance to be laid before the Legislature
of the State of Uttar Pradesh and it shall not be necessary to cause such report
or any such memorandum to be laid before the Legislative Assembly of the State
of Uttaranchal.
Part
IX
Management
and Development of Water resources
79.
Water Resources Development and its Management: (1)
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act but subject to the provisions of
section 80, all right and liabilities of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh in
respect of water resource projects in relation to—
(i) Ganga and its tributaries
traversing the successor States excluding the Upper Yamuna River up to Okhla;
and
(ii) Upper Yamuna River and its
tributaries up to Okhla,
shall
on the appointed day, be the rights and liabilities of the successor States in
such proportion as may be fixed, and such adjustments as may be made, by
agreement entered into by the said States after consultation with the Central
Government, or, if no such agreement is entered into within two years of the
appointed day, then, the Central Government may, by order, determine within one
year having regard to the purposes of the project:
Provided
that the order so made by the Central Government may be varied by any subsequent
agreement entered into by the successor States after consultation with the
Central Government.
(2)
An agreement or order referred to in sub-section (1) shall, where an
extension or further development of any of the projects referred to in that
sub-section after the appointed day is undertaken, be the rights and liabilities
of the successor States in relation to such extension or further
development.
(3)
The rights and liabilities referred to in sub-section (1) and (2)
shall include—
(a) the right to receive and utilise
the water available for distribution as a result of the projects;
and
(b) the right to receive and utilise
the power generated as a result of the projects,
but
shall not include the rights and liabilities under any contract entered into
before the appointed day by the Government of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh with any person or authority other than
Government.
80.
Constitution and functions of the Ganga Management Board: (1) The
Central Government shall constitute a Board to be called the Ganga Management
Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) for administration, construction,
maintenance and operation of projects referred to in sub-section (1) of
section 79 for any or for a combination of the following purposes,
namely:—
(i) Irrigation;
(ii) rural and urban water
supply;
(iii) hydro power
generation;
(iv) navigation;
(v) industries;
and
(vi) for any other purpose which the
Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
specify.
(2)
The Board shall consist of—
(a) a whole-time Chairman to be
appointed by the Central Government in consultation with the successor
States;
(b) two full time members, one from
each of the successor States, to be nominated by the respective State
Government;
(c) four part-time members, two from
each of the successor States, to be nominated by the respective State
Government;
(d) two representatives of the Central
Government to be nominated by that Government.
(3)
The functions of the Board shall include—
(a) the regulation of supply of water
from the projects referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of
section 79 to the successor States having regard to—
(i)
any agreement entered into or arrangement made covering the Government of
existing State of Uttar Pradesh and any other State or Union territory,
and
(ii)
the agreement or the order referred to in sub-section (2) of section
79;
(b)
the regulation of supply of power generated at the projects referred to in
clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 79, to any Electricity
Board or other authority in- charge of the distribution of power having regard
to—
(i)
any agreement entered into, or arrangement made covering the Government of the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh and any other State or Union territory,
and
(ii)
the agreement or the order referred to in sub-section (2) of section
79;
(c) the construction of such of the
remaining on-going or new works connected with the development of the water
resources projects relating to the rivers or their tributaries as the Central
Government may specify by notification in the Official
Gazette;
(d) such functions as the Central
Government may, after consultation with the successor States entrust to
it.
81.
Staff of the Management Board: (1) The Board may employ such
staff, as it may consider necessary for the efficient discharge of its functions
under this Act. Such staff shall at the first instance, be appointed on
deputation from the successor State failing which through any other
method:
Provided
that every person who, immediately before the constitution of the said Board,
was engaged in the construction, maintenance or operation of the works relating
to the projects referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of
section 79 shall continue to be so employed under the Board in connection with
the said works on the same terms and conditions of service as were applicable to
him before such constitution until the Central Government, by order, directs
otherwise:
Provided
further that the said Board may, in consultation with the Government of the
successor State or the Electricity Board concerned and with the prior approval
of the Central Government, retain any such person for service under that State
Government or Board.
(2)
The Government of successor States shall at all times provide the necessary
funds to the Board to meet all expenses (including the salaries and allowances
of the staff required for the discharge of its functions and such amounts shall
be apportioned between the States concerned in such proportion as the Central
Government may, having regard to the benefits to each of the said States
specify.
(3)
The Board shall be under the control of the Central Government and shall comply
with such directions, as may, from time to time, be given to it by that
Government.
(4)
The Board may delegate such of its powers, functions and duties as it may deem
fit to the Chairman of the said Board or to any officer subordinate to the
Board.
(5)
The Central Government may, for the purpose of enabling the Board to function
efficiently, issue such directions to the State Governments concerned, or any
other authority, and the State Governments, or the other authority shall comply
with such directions.
82.
Jurisdiction
of the Board:
(1) The Board shall, ordinarily exercise jurisdiction in regard dot any
of the projects referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of
section 79 over head works (barrages, dams, reservoirs, regulating structures),
part of canal network and transmission lines necessary to deliver water or power
to the States concerned.
(2)
If any question arises as to whether the Board has jurisdiction under
sub-section (1) over any project referred thereto, the same shall be
referred to the Central Government for decision thereon.
83.
Power of Board to make regulations: The Board may make regulations
consistent with the Act and the rules made thereunder, to provide
for—
(a) regulating the time and place of
meetings of the Board and the procedure to be followed for the transaction of
business at such meetings;
(b) delegation of powers and duties of
the Chairman or any officer of the Board;
(c) the appointment and regulation of
the conditions of service of the officers and other staff of the
Board;
(d) any other mater for which
regulations are considered necessary by the Board.
84.
Allocation
of the water resources of the River Yamuna:
(1) The utilisable water resources of the Yamuna River up to Okhla, as
allocated, before the appointed day, to the existing State of Uttar Pradesh
under the Memorandum of Undertakings, dated the 12th May, 1994 shall be further
allocated between the successor States by mutual agreement within a period of
two years, failing which, the Central Government shall, by order, determine the
allocation of such water resource between the successor States within a further
period of one year.
(2)
The State of Uttaranchal shall, on the appointed day, be inducted as a member of
the Upper Yamuna Board constituted for the im-plementation of the Memorandum of
Undertaking referred to in sub-section (1).
Part
X
Legal
and miscellaneous provisions
85.
Amendment of section 15 of Act 37 of 1956: On and from the appointed day,
in section 15 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, in clause (b), for
the words “Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh ”, the words “Uttar Pradesh,
Uttaranchal and Madhya Pradesh” shall be substituted.
86.
Territorial
extent of laws: The
provisions of Part II shall not be deemed to have effected any change in the
territories to which The Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling of Land Holding
Act, 1961 and any other law in force immediately before the appointed day,
extends or applies, and territorial references in any such law to the State of
Uttar Pradesh shall, until otherwise provided by a competent Legislature or
other competent authority be construed as meaning the territories within the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh before the appointed day.
87.
Power to adapt laws: For the purpose of facilitating the application in
relation to the State of Uttar Pradesh or Uttaranchal of any law made before the
appointed day, the appropriate Government may before the expiration of two years
from that 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 “appropriate Government” means as respects any law
relating to a matter enumerated in the Union List, the Central Government, and
as respects any other law in its application to a State, the State
Government.
88.
Power to construe laws: Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient
provision has been made under section 87 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 Uttar Pradesh or Uttaranchal, 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.
89.
Power to name authorities, etc., for exercising statutory functions: The
Government of the State of Uttaranchal, as respects the transferred territory
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the authority, officer or
person who, on or after 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.
90.
Legal proceedings: Where immediately before the appointed day, the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh is a party to any legal proceedings with respect
to any property, rights or liabilities subject to apportionment between the
States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal under this Act, the State of Uttar
Pradesh or Uttaranchal 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 Uttar Pradesh or added as a
party to those proceedings, and the proceedings may continue
accordingly.
91.
Transfer
of pending proceedings: (1)
Every proceedings pending immediately before the appointed day before a court
(other than High Court), tribunal, authority or officer in any area which on
that day falls within the State of Uttar Pradesh shall, if it is a proceeding
relating exclusively to the territory, which as from that day are the
territories of Uttaranchal State, stand transferred to the corresponding court,
tribunal, authority or officer of that State.
(2)
If any question arises as to whether any proceeding should stand transferred
under sub-section (1), it shall be referred to the High Court of
Allahabad 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 the State of Uttaranchal means—
(i)
the court, tribunal, authority or officer in which, or before whom, the
proceeding would have laid if it had been instituted after the appointed day;
or
(ii)
in case of doubt, such court, tribunal, authority, or officer in that State, 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 Uttar Pradesh to be the corresponding court,
tribunal, authority or officer.
92.
Right
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 Uttar
Pradesh 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 Uttaranchal.
93.
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.
94.
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:
Provided
that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of three years
from the appointed day.
(2)
Every order made under this section shall be laid, before each House of
Parliament.