I. Short title
This Act may be called the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000.
2.Definitions
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", "council 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 Bihar" means-lhe State_of Bihar as existing
immediately before the appointed day;
(f) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law,
rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having, immediately
before the appointed day, the force of law in the whole or in any part
of the existing State of Bihar;
(g) "notified order'" means an order published in the Official Gazette;
(h) "population ratio", in relation to the States of Bihar and Jharkhand,
means the ratio of 645.30:218.44;
(i) "sitting member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the
Legislature of the existing State of Bihar, means a person who
immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House;
G) "successor State", in relation to the existing State of Bihar, means the
State of Bihar or Jharkhand;
1. 15th day of November, 2000, vide 5.0. 829(E), dt. 14.9.2000, published in GOI, Part II 3(ii) (E), dt.
14.9.2000.
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"transferred territory" means the territory which en the appointed
day is transferred from the existing State of Bihar to the State of
}harkhand;
(k)
(1)
'treasury"includes a sub-treasury; and
(m) any reference to a district, tahsil or other territorial division of the
existing State of Bihar shall be construed as a reference to the area
comprised within that territorial division on the appointed day: