1THE ANDHRA PRADESH REORGANISATION BILL, 2014 A BILL to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh and for matters connected therewith. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— PART I PRELIMINARY 1.This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. 2.In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “appointed day” means the day which the Central Government may, bynotification 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 PeopleAct, 1950; Bill No. 8 of 2014 (d) “Election Commission” means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324; (e) “existing State of Andhra Pradesh” means the State of Andhra Pradesh as existing immediately before the appointed day; (f) “law” includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having, immediately before the appointedday, the force of law in the whole or in any part of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh; (g) “notified order” means an order published in the Official Gazette; (h) “population ratio”, in relation to the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, means the ratio of 58.32 : 41.68 as per 2011 Census; (i) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing State of Andhra 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 Andhra Pradesh, means the State of Andhra Pradesh or the State of Telangana, as the case may be; (k) “transferred territory” means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the existing State of Andhra Pradesh to the State of Telangana; (l) “treasury” includes a sub-treasury; and (m) any reference to a district, mandal, tehsil, taluk or other territorial division of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division on the appointed day. PART I I REORGANISATION OFTHE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH Formation of Telangana State. 3.On and from the appointed day, there shall be formed a new State to be known as the State of Telangana comprising the following territories of the existing State of AndhraPradesh, namely:— Adilabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Nizamabad, Warangal, Rangareddi, Nalgonda,Mahbubnagar, Khammam and Hyderabad districts, and thereupon the said territories shall cease to form part of the existing State of AndhraPradesh. State of AndhraPradesh and territorial divisions thereof. 4.On and from the appointed day, the State of Andhra Pradesh shall comprise the territories of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh other than those specified in section 3. Hyderabad to be common capital for States of Telangana and AndhraPradesh. 5.(1) On and from the appointed day, Hyderabad in the existing State of AndhraPradesh, shall be the common capital of the State of Telangana and the State of AndhraPradesh for such period not exceeding ten years. (2) After expiry of the period referred to in sub-section (1), Hyderabad shall be thecapital of the State of Telangana and there shall be a new capital for the State of AndhraPradesh. Explanation. –– In this Part, the common capital includes the existing area notified as the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation under the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955. 6.The Central Government shall constitute an expert committee to study various alternatives regarding the new capital for the successor State of Andhra Pradesh and make appropriate recommendations in a period not exceeding forty-five days from the date of enactment of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. 7.On and from the appointed day, the Governor of the existing State of AndhraPradesh shall be the Governor for both the successor States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for such period as may be determined by the President . 8.(1) On and from the appointed day, for the purposes of administration of the common capital area, the Governor shall have special responsibility for the security of life, liberty and property of all those who reside in such area. (2) In particular, the responsibility of the Governor shall extend to matters such as law and order, internal security and security of vital installations, and management and allocation of Government buildings in the common capital area. (3) In discharge of the functions, the Governor shall, after consulting the Council of Ministers of the State of Telangana, exercise his individual judgment as to the action to betaken: Provided that if any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is under this sub-section required to act in the exercise of his individual judgment, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in the exercise of his individual judgment. (4) The Governor shall be assisted by two advisors to be appointed by the central government
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