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The State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986

The State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986

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The State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986, is the foundational law that officially transformed the existing Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh into a full-fledged Indian state. It regulates the establishment of the state’s government, including a sixty-member Legislative Assembly and representation in the national Parliament. It also provides for a shared common High Court and manages the transfer of assets, revenues, and public services from the central administration to the new state. This Act matters because it granted the region political autonomy, allowing its residents to finally govern themselves through their own elected representatives.

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  1. 1. Short title.
  2. 2. Definitions.
  3. 3. Establishment of the State of Arunachal Pradesh.
  4. 4. [Repealed].
  5. 5. [Repealed].
  6. 6. Allocation of sitting member.
  7. 7. [Repealed].
  8. 8. Allocation of seats in the existing House of the People.
  9. 9. Provision as to sitting members.
  10. 10. Provision as to Legislative Assembly.
  11. 11. Provisional Legislative Assembly.
  12. 12. Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
  13. 13. Rules of procedure.
  14. 14. Delimitation of constituencies.
  15. 15. Power of Election Commission to maintain delimitation orders up-to-date.
  16. 16. [Repealed].
  17. 17. [Repealed].
  18. 18. Common High Court for Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
  19. 19. Provision as to advocates.
  20. 20. Practice and procedure in the common High Court.
  21. 21. Custody of Seal of the common High Court.
  22. 22. Form of writs and other processes.
  23. 23. Powers of Judges.
  24. 24. Principal seat and other places of sitting of the common High Court.
  25. 25. Procedure as to appeals to Supreme Court.
  26. 26. Transfer of proceedings from the High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura and Mizoram to the common High Court.
  27. 27. Interpretation.
  28. 28. Right to appear or to act in proceedings transferred to the common High Court.
  29. 29. Saving.
  30. 30. Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by the Legislature.
  31. 31. Reports relating to the accounts of the existing Union territory of Arunachal Pradesh.
  32. 32. Allowances and privileges of Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
  33. 33. Distribution of revenues.
  34. 34. Property, assets, rights, liabilities, obligations, etc.
  35. 35. Provision relating to All-India Services.
  36. 36. Provisions relating to other services.
  37. 37. Other provisions as to services.
  38. 38. Provisions as to continuance of officers in same posts.
  39. 39. Advisory Committees.
  40. 40. Prohibition of representation after certain period.
  41. 41. Power of Central Government to give direcions.
  42. 42. [Repealed].
  43. 43. [Repealed].
  44. 44. [Repealed].
  45. 45. [Repealed].
  46. 46. Continuance of existing laws and their adaptations.
  47. 47. Power to construe laws.
  48. 48. Provisions as to continuance of courts, etc.
  49. 49. Effect of provisions of Act inconsistent with other laws.
  50. 50. Power to remove difficulties.
  51. 51. Power to make rules.

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