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असाधारण EXTRAORDINARY भाग II — खण्ड 1 PART II — Section 1 प्राधिकार से प्रकाशित PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 12th December, 2019/Agrahayana 21, 1941 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 9th August, 2019, and is hereby published for general information:- THE JAMMU ANDKASHMIR REORGANISATION ACT, 2019

NO. 34 OF 2019 [9th August, 2019.]

An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Jammu and Kashmir and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

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

PART-I PRELIMINARY

1. This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
 * (a) "appointed day" means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
 * (b) "article" means an article of the Constitution;


 * (c) “assembly constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950(43 of 1950);
 * (d) “Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324;
 * (e)“existing State of Jammu and Kashmir" means the State of Jammu and Kashmir as existing immediately before the appointed day, comprising the territory which