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Official sourceAmendment) Act, 1956, s.29 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1.11.1956).
4. Inserted by the Constitution (Fifty-seventh Amendment) Act, 1987, s.2 (w.e.f. 21.9.1987).
5. Substituted by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001, s.7, for “2000” (w.e.f. 21.2.2002).
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203 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part XVI. - Special Provisions Relating To Certain Classes)
(a) if all the seats in the Legislative Assembly of such State in existence on the
date of coming into force of the Constitution (Fifty-seventh Amendment) Act, 1987
(hereafter in this clause referred to as the existing Assembly) are held by members of
the Scheduled Tribes, all the seats except one;
(b) in any other case, such number of seats as bears to the total number of seats, a
proportion not less than the number (as on the said date) of members belonging to the
Scheduled Tribes in the existing Assembly bears to the total number of seats in the
existing Assembly.]
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[(3B) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (3), until the re-adjustment, under
article 170, takes takes effect on the basis of the first census after the year 2[2026], of the
number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tripura, the seats which shall be
reserved for the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly shall be, such number of seats
as bears to the total number of seats, a proportion not less than the number, as on the date of
coming into force of the Constitution (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992, of members
belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly in existence on the said date
bears to the total number of seats in that Assembly.]
(4) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous district in the Legislative
Assembly of the State of Assam shall bear to the total number of seats in that Assembly a
proportion not less than the population of the district bears to the total population of the
State.
(5) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autonomous district of Assam shall
not comprise any area outside that district 3[***].
(6) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district of
the State of Assam shall be eligible for election to the Legislative Assembly of the State
from any constituency of that district 3[***]:
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[Provided that for elections to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam, the
representation of the Scheduled Tribes and non-Scheduled Tribes in the constituencies
included in the Bodoland Territorial Areas District, so notified, and existing prior to the
constitution of Bodoland Territorial Areas District, shall be maintained.]
1. Inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992, s.2 (w.e.f. 5.12.1992).
2. Substituted by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001, s.7, for “2000” (w.e.f. 21.2.2002).
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