 lok sabha corrigenda tothe punjab legislative council (abolition) bill, 1969 (to be/as introduced in 10k sabha) 1 • page 2, in the marginal heading to clause 8,-t---' i2!: "pwern read -"power" 2 page 7, line 15 from-1r6'ttom,-for ~oustituencie5m read ~tuencies· --new delhi; jul'l22l~69 _---,asa<1ha 31, 1891 (saka)  the punjab legislative council (aboln'ionj bill, [969 btllto provide for the aboutiolt 01 the leg18tativ1! co"~icil of the staie or punjab and for '"atters ~;upfjtementa1, hrcldental and tonseque-ntial t1wrero de it enacted by parliament in the twentieth year of the repubjte of india as follows:-:-1 (1) this aet may be called the punjab -z,jdlisla~'coul'lci1 (abbli-shol't tioa) act, 1969, title s (2) it shall come into force on such date as the cmtr! government and ecjtl'meft ~ eemmt may, by ftoufteatitm in tom official gazette, aj)i't'lnt 2 11'1 this act, unless· the ecntext othet'wise requires,---dllftnition~ 10 (a) "al'propriate government" means, as resp~ta a law relating to a matter el2umerated in list i in the sevmth schedule to the constitution, the central govetnment and as respects any fjtne'l' law, the state govemment; (b) "artic}  means an rticte of the ccnstituttt'ln: --(c) ;c~uncil" means the legislative council of the state of punjab; (d) ulaw" includes any ejilactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having the force of law in the whole or any part of the state of punjab; s (~) cclegislative assembly" means the legislative assembly of the state of punjab 3 (1) the legislative council of the state of punjab is hereby abolished abolition oftbe councu (2) on the abolition of the council, every member thereof shall cease 10 to be such member  • in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) of article 168, the word 'c,punjab," shall be omitted amendmat of article 168 5 in the representation of the people act, 1950,-amendmentor act 43 of 1950 (4) in the third schedule, entry no 7 relating to punjab shall is be omitted; (b) in the fourth schedule, the heading "punjab" and the entries thereunder shall be omitted 6 the delimitation of council constituencies (punjab) order, 1951, is hereby repealed ;!o repeal of deli· mltation of council constituencies (punjab) order, 1951 7 (1) a bill pendinc in the council immetiiately before the commenoement of this act which has not been passed by the legislative assembly shall lapse on the abolition of the council  proviaionaato pendin, billi (2) a bill pending in the council immediately before the commencement of this act which has been passed by the legislative assembly 2s shall not lapse on the abolition of the 'couneil, but on sueh abolition shall be deemed to have been passed before such commencement by both  houles of the legiblature of the state of pudjab in the fonn in which it was passed by the legislative assembly :1 , , (3) if, ~il1 which having been passe'd by the legislative assembly 30 is, before the commencement of this act, either rejected by- the council or passed by the couneil with amendments, the legislative assembly may, after such ~ommencement, pass' the bill again with 'or without such amendments, if any, as have been made by the council and the bill so passed shall be ~eem~d to be a bill introd~~(;t' inan'd passed by the 35  leglilatfve asaemb]~ after the c~mmencement of this act,   , pwerto adapt laws 8 the appropriate governmt>nt may, he(ol'e tllt' f'xpiration ot one year trom the commencement of this act by order, make such adaptations and modifications of any lew made before such commencement, whether by way of repeal or amendment as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of the abolition of the council under section 3, and thereupun every such law shall have effect subject t<1 the adaptations and modifications so made power to construe lawi s 9 notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under section 8 for the adaptation or modification of a law made before the commencement of this act, say court, tribunal or authority required or empowered to enforce such law may coastrue the law in such manner, without affecting the subst~nce, as may be necessary or proper 10 on account of the abolition of the council, in regartl to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority  sta 'cbment of objects and reasonsunder article '169 ot the c'onstitut~n parl1ament may, by jawl pro vide tor the 'aboljtjoc ",f the legislative coundl of a state having s·ucq ii council, jt' the ~gtslauve assembly of the state passes a resolution to that effect by a majority of the total membership 0{ the assembly and by a majority moot jess than t~-thlrds of the mef'1lbers of the assem· bjy p!'esent and voting on 24th april, 1969, the legislative assembly of the state of punjab has passed a resolution, in tenns of article 169 of tl1~ corstitution, for the abolition of the legislative council of thft state in pursuance of this resolution, it is propose:! to abolish the uplative council of the state of punjab, the bill ~eki to give effect to this object and also pl'ovides foe matters supplemental, tnc1dental and ('onsequential to $uch abolition ~ "1j,ot'f' new dflfu; the 15t! j1t-i1/ 1969  f p govinda menon clause 8 of the bill empowers the appropriate government to make such adaptations and modifications of any law made before the commence· ment of the act as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of the abolition of the legislative council of the state of punjab under clauwe s this power will be availa hie only for a period of one year from th~ com· - mencement of the act the adaptations and motiifications cannot affect the substance of the laws adapted the delegauon of legislative power is ,f - dqrnlial character , <4 ,i  extract from the constitutiqn of india'"  - - -  ~g8 (1) for every state there shall be a legislature which shall consis~ of the governor, and  couti-\utlonof lepta tures in states (4) in the states of andhra pradesh; bihar, madhya pradelih, ,  tamil naiu, maharashtra, mysore, punjab, uttar pradesh and west bengal, two houses; - - - - -  extracts from the representation of the people act, 1950- - (43 of 1950) - - - the third schedule (see section 10) allocation of seats in the legislative councils | name       | of      | state    ||------------|---------|----------|| total      |         |          || number     |         |          || 10         |         |          || be elecled | or      |          || nominated  |         |          || under      | article |          || sub-       |         |          || sub-       |         |          || culuse     |         |          || c1lluije   |         |          || (d)        |         |          || (e)        |         |          || 6          |         |          || 7          |         |          || number     |         |          || 171(3)     |         |          || of         | seats   |          || ----       |         |          || sub-       | sub-    | sub-     || clause     |         |          || clause     |         |          || clause     |         |          || (a)        |         |          || (b)        |         |          || (c)        |         |          || ---------- |         |          || %          |         |          || 3          |         |          ||          |         |          || 5          |         |          || -          |         |          || -          |         |          || -          |         |          || -          |         |          || -          |         |          || 3          |         |          || 40         |         |          || 14         |         |          || 3          |         |          || -          |         |          || -          |         |          || -          |         |          || 7         | punjao  |          || -          |         |          || 14         |         |          || 6          |         |          || -          |         |          | the fourth schedule[see section 27 (2) ] local authorities for purposes 01 elections to legi81ative councilt - - - - - punjab ' 1 municipalities / 2 panchayat samitil 3 cantonment boaxtls 5 notified area commtttees - -  - - ~,~;)  ~  6  tne delimitation of council constituencies (punjab) order, 1951in pursuance of section 11 of the representati<lu of the people act) 1950 (43 of 1950), the president is pleased to make the following ortier, namely:-ill j 1 this order may be called the delimitation of council constituencies (punjab) order, 1951 2 the constituencies into which the state of punjab shall be divided for the purpose of elections to the legislative council of the state from (a) the graduates' constituencies, (b) the teachers' constituencies and (c) the local authorities' constituencies in the said state, the extent of each such constituency an'd the number of seats allotted to each su('h constituency shall be as shown in the following table:- :·1 name of consliluency extent of con3tilucn:y nu,~r ot aeats 3 graduatls' constiluelldes l punjllb north graduates amritsar, gumanpur and hoshiarpu( districts 2 p1:'njab central graduates fi"f07epur, kapurthala and jul\untur districts 3 punjab south graduliles ludhiallll rupar, p;ltiala, sangrur and bhatinda distric4s 're<lchers' ccmscillltnciej i punjab north teachers  amritsar gurdaspur and hoshiarpur districts j'erorzepur, kapurthala ind juljundur z pun;al-) central teachers district~ 3 punjab south teachers  ludhianll, rupar, ijatiala, san,rur and bhatinda districts  lociji anthoritius i coustitut/lcies| amritsar                   | and               | kapw·thala    ||----------------------------|-------------------|---------------|| di~lric's                  |                   |               || i                         |                   |               || aauitsar-rum-kapurthala   | lol:al            |               || authorities               | -                 |               || 2                         |                   |               || gurdaspuf                  | local authorities |             || hoshiarpur                 | disrrict          |               || 4                         |                   |               || ho~hiarpur                 |                   |               || local authorities          |                   |               || jullundur                  | district          |               || s                         |                   |               || jullundur                  |                   |               || local                      |                   |               || aulhorities                |                   |               || ferotepur                  | district          |               || 6                         |                   |               || ferozepur                  | local authorities |               || bhatinda                   | district          |               || 7                         |                   |               || bhatinda local authorities |                   |               || sangrur                    | district          |               || ~                         |                   |               || sanarur                    |                   |               || local authorities          |                   |               || ludhiana                   | district          |               || 2                          |                   |               || 9                         |                   |               || ludhiaoa                   | local authorities |               || locili                     |                   |               || patiala                    | and               | rupar         || 10                        |                   |               || i'atiala-c/tlll-rupar      |                   |               || authorities               |                   |               || --                         |                   |               ||                           |                   |               || -                          |                   |               || ,----                      |                   |               || _-                       |                   |               || -                          |                   |               || ~                          |                   |               ||                            |                   |               || -~                         |                   |               || ---                        |                   |               || ----                       |                   |               || ~                         |                   |               || -                        |                   |               |3 any reference in this order t'o a district shall be construed as a reference to the area comprire<i within that dilltrict on tht" l!!t day of n()vf'lh-'  " "  ~ "    " ber 1966,  '" _ • - -   a bill to provide for the abolition of the legislative councll of the stare of pull,ab and for matters supplemcntal~ incidental and consequential thereto,  , ' i , ::i  i (shrt p govintla mnlhn, allni,'trcr of law arid spcioj wrljarr) 