Act Info:
Preamble1 - GOVERNMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES ACT, 1963
Part I Section1 - Short title and commencement
Section2 - Definitions and interpretation
Part II Section3 - Legislative Assemblies for Union territories and their composition
Section4 - Qualification for membership of Legislative Assembly
Section5 - Duration of Legislative Assemblies
Section6 - Sessions of Legislative Assembly, prorogation and dissolution
Section7 - Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly
Section8 - Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration
Section9 - Right of Administrator to address and send messages to Legislative Assembly
Section10 - Rights of Ministers as respects Legislative Assembly
Section11 - Oath or affirmation by members
Section12 - Voting in Assembly, power of Assembly to act notwithstanding vacancies and quorum
Section13 - Vacation of seats
Section14 - Disqualifications for membership
Section14A - Disqualification on ground of defection for being a member
Section15 - Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified
Section16 - Powers, privileges, etc., of members
Section17 - Salaries and allowances of members
Section18 - Extent of legislative powers
Section19 - Exemption of property of the Union from taxation
Section20 - Restrictions on laws passed by Legislative Assembly with respect to certain matters
Section21 - Inconsistency between laws made by Parliament and laws made by Legislative Assembly
Section22 - Sanction of the Administrator required for certain legislative proposals
Section23 - Special provisions as to financial Bills
Section24 - Procedure as to lapsing of Bills
Section25 - Assent to Bills
Section25A - Bills reserved for consideration
Section26 - Requirements as to sanction and recommendation to be regarded as matters of procedure-only
Section27 - Annual financial statement
Section28 - Procedure in Legislative Assembly with respect to estimates
Section29 - Appropriation Bills
Section30 - Supplementary, additional or excess grants
Section31 - Votes on account
Section32 - Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by Legislative Assembly
Section33 - Rules of procedure
Section34 - Official language or languages of Union territory and language or languages to be used in Legislative Assembly thereof
Section35 - Language to be used for Acts, Bills, etc.
Section36 - Restriction on discussion in the Legislative Assembly
Section37 - Courts not to inquire into proceedings of Legislative Assembly
Part III Section38 - Definitions
Section39 - Assembly constituencies
Section40 - Representation of Pondicherry in the House of the People
Section41 - Duties of Delimitation Commission
Section42 - Associate members
Section43 - Procedure as to delimitation
Section43A - Special provision for delimitation of constituencies of Mizoram Legislative Assembly
Section43B - Representation of Arunachal Pradesh in the House of the People
Section43C - Special provisions for delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in Arunachal Pradesh and constituencies of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Section43D - Special provision for determination of constituencies in the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
Section43E - Special provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies
Section43F - Special provision as to readjustment of territorial constituencies on the basis of 2001 census
Part IV Section44 - Council of Ministers
Section45 - Other provisions as to Ministers
Section46 - Conduct of business
Part V Section47 - Consolidated Fund of the Union territory
Section47A - Public Account of the Union territory and moneys credited to it
Section48 - Contingency Fund of the Union territory
Section48A - Borrowing upon the security of the Consolidated Fund of Union Territory
Section48B - Form of accounts of the Union territory
Section49 - Audit reports
Section50 - Relation of Administrator and his Ministers to President
Section51 - Provisions in case of failure of constitutional machinery
Section52 - Authorisation of Expenditure by President
Section53 - Provisions for election to Parliament from Goa, Daman and Diu, and Pondicherry
Section54 - Transitional provisions for administration of justice in certain areas in the Union territory of Mizoram
Section54A - Provision as to provisional Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh
Section55 - Contracts and suits
Section56 - Power of President to remove difficulties
Section57 - Amendment to certain enactments
Section58 - Repeal and savings
ScheduleI - FIRST SCHEDULE
Amending Act1 - GOVERNMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001
Amending Act1 - GOVERNMENT OF UNION TERRITORIES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005