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An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the States of India and for matters connected therewith.

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be called the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

Definitions. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of November, 1956;

(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;43 of 1950.

(d) "corresponding new State" means, in relation to the existing State of Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Mysore, Punjab or Rajasthan, the new State with the same name, and in relation to the existing State of Travancore-Cochin, the new State of Kerala;

(e) "corresponding State" means, in relation to the new State of Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Mysore, Punjab or Rajasthan, the existing State with the same name, and in relation to the new State of Kerala, the existing State of Travancore-Cochin;

(f) "Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324;

(g) "existing State" means a State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution at the commencement of this Act;

(h) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having the force of law in the whole or in any part of the territory of India;