The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area Act, 1957
# THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957
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 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS

1. Short title and commencement.
2. Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area.
3. Amendment of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.
4. Amendment of the Delimitation Order.
5. [Repealed.].
6. Provision as to the sitting member of Parliament.
7. Territorial extent of laws not to be affected.

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# THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957

 ACT NO. 42 OF 1957

[29th November, 1957.]

# An Act to provide for the formation of the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area of Assam as an
 administrative unit.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

**1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area**

Act, 1957.

(2) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the

Official Gazette, appoint.

**2. Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area.—As from the commencement of this Act, there shall**

be formed a new administrative unit in the State of Assam by the name of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area
comprising the tribal areas which at such commencement were known as the Naga Hills District and
Tuensang Frontier Division of the North East Frontier Agency.

**3. Amendment of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.—In the Sixth Schedule to the**

Constitution, in paragraph 20,—

(a) after sub-paragraph (2A), the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted, namely:—

“(2B) The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area shall comprise the areas which at the commencement of

this Constitution were known as the Naga Hills District and the Naga Tribal Area.”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (3), after the words “Administrative area”, the brackets and words “(other

than the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area)” shall be inserted;

(c) in Part A of the Table, item 4 shall be omitted; and

(d) in Part B of the Table, for item 2, the following item shall be substituted, namely:—

“2. The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area.”.

**4. Amendment of the Delimitation Order.—In the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly**

Constituencies Order, 1956,—

(a) in the First Schedule, in the entry in column 3 against serial No. 37, the words “Naga Hills”,

shall be omitted; and

(b) in the Second Schedule, in the Part relating to Assam, the heading “Naga Hills District” and

all entries against serial Nos. 16, 17 and 18 shall be omitted.

**5. [Amendment of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending**

_Act, 1960 (58 of 1960), s. 2 and_ _the First Schedule (w.e.f. 26-12-1960)._

**6. Provision as to the sitting member of Parliament.—Notwithstanding the alteration in the extent**

of the Autonomous Districts Parliamentary constituency in Assam effected by section 4, the sitting
member of the House of the People representing that constituency shall be deemed to have been elected to
the House of the People by that constituency as so altered.

**7. Territorial extent of laws not to be affected.—The provisions of section 2 shall not be deemed to**

have effected any change in the areas to which any law in force immediately before the commencement
of this Act extends or applies, and territorial references in any such law to the Naga Hills District, the
Naga Tribal Area or the Tuensang Frontier Division shall, until otherwise provided by a competent
legislature or other competent authority, continue to have the same meaning.

_Explanation.—In this section, law means any law, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme,_

notification or other instrument having the force of law in India or any part thereof.

1. 1st December, 1957, _vide notification No. S.R.O. 3843, dated 30th November, 1957,_ _see Gazette of India, Extraordinary,_

Part II, sec. 3.

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