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TAMIL NADU LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ACT 2010

1. Short title. - This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council Act, 2010.
2. Definition. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, each of the words and
expressions used herein and not defined
but defined in the Representation of the People
Act, 1950, shall have the same meaning as in that Act.
3. Creation of Legislative
Council for Tamil Nadu. - (1) As from such date as the
President may, by order appoint, there shall be a Legislative Council for
the State of
Tamil Nadu; and as from that date, in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) of article 168, after the
word "Karnataka,", the
words "Tamil Nadu", shall be inserted.
(2) In the said Council, there shall be 78 seats of which--
(a) the numbers to be filled by
persons elected by the electorates referred to in
sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (3) of article 171 shall be 26, 7 and 7
respectively;
(b) the number to be filled by persons elected by the members of the
Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu in accordance
with the provisions of sub-
clause (d) of the said clause shall be 26; and
(c) the number to be filled by persons nominated by the
Governor of Tamil
Nadu in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (e) of that clause shall be 12.
(3) As soon as may be after
the commencement of this Act, the President, after
consultation with the Election Commission, shall, by order, determine,--
(a) the
constituencies into which the State of Tamil Nadu shall be divided for
the purpose of elections to the said Council under each of
the sub-clauses (a), (b)
and (c) of clause (3) of article 171;
(b) the extent of each constituency; and
(c) the number of seats to
be allotted to each constituency.
(4) As soon as may be after such determination, steps shall be taken to constitute the
said Council
in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the Representation of the
People Act, 1950 and the Representation of the People Act,
1951.
4. Amendment of Third Schedule and Fourth Schedule to Act 43 of 1950. - In the
Representation of the People Act, 1950,--
(a)
in the Third Schedule, after entry No.6 relating to Karnataka, the following entry
shall be inserted, namely:--
"7. Tamil Nadu 78
26 7 7 26 12";
(b) in the Fourth Schedule, after the heading "KARNATAKA" and the entries
thereunder, the following heading and entries
shall be inserted, namely:--
"TAMIL NADU
1. Municipalities, as referred to in article 243Q of the Constitution.
2. Panchayat Union
Councils.
3. Cantonment Boards.
4. Tamil Nadu Act 21 of 1994. - District Panchayats referred to in the Tamil Nadu
Panchayat Act,
1994.".
5. Amendment of section 15A of Act 43 of 1951. - In section 15A of the Representation
of the People Act, 1951, after the
words and figures ``under the Andhra Pradesh
Legislative Council Act, 2005", the words and figures "and constituting the Legislative
Council of the State of Tamil Nadu under the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council Act, 2010"
shall be inserted.
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V. K. BHASIN,
Secy. to the Govt. of India.