1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appointed day”
1 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 Uttar Pradesh” means the State of Uttar Pradesh 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 Uttar Pradesh;
(g) “notified order” means an order published in the Official Gazette;
(h) “population ratio”, in relation to the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, means the ratio
of 1321:70;
(i) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing
State of Uttar Pradesh, means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member of
that House;
(j) “successor State”, in relation to the existing State of Uttar Pradesh, means the State of Uttar
Pradesh or Uttaranchal;
(k) “transferred territory” means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the
existing State of Uttar Pradesh to the State of Uttaranchal;
(l) “treasury” includes a sub-treasury; and
(m) any reference to a district, tehsil or other territorial division of the existing State of Uttar
Pradesh shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division on the
appointed day