sm no 17 of 1986  the tamil nadu lbgislative council (abolition) bill 1986 a blllto provide for the abolition of the legislative council of the state of tamil nadu and jot mattei's supplemental, incidentat and ~naequ~n­tial thereto, be it enacted by parliament in the thirty-seventh year of the rep'lblic of india as follows:-1 (1) this act may be called the tamil nadu legislative council short (abolition) act, 1986 title add mente commence-5 (2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint 2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,-defini tions (4) "appropriate government" means, as respects a law relating to a matter enumerated in list i in the seventh schedule to the 10 constitutlon, the central government, and as respects any other law, the state government; (b) "article" means an article of the constitution; (c) "council" means the leiislative council of the state of tamil nadu; (d) "law" includes any enactment, 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 tamil nadu; (e) "legislative assembly" means the legislative assembly of the state of tamil n adu 5 3 (1) the legislative council of the state of tamil nadu is hereby abolished '! abolition of the council (2) on the abolition of the council, every member thereof shall cease to be such member 4 in sub-clause (a) of clause ,(1) of article 168, the worda "tamil 10 nadu," shall be omitted amendment of articlo 168 5 in the representation of the people act, 1950,-(a) in the third schedule, entry no4 relating to tamil nadu ihall be omitted; amendment of act 43 'of 1950 (b) in the fourth schedule, the heading "tamil nadu" and the 15 entries thereun,der shall be omitted 6 the delimitation of council constituencies (madras) order, 1951, is hereby repealed repeal of tbe delimitation of counell conatitucndol (madru) order, 1"1 7 (1) a bill pending in the council immediately before the commencement of this act which has not been passed by the legislative 20 assembly shall lapse on the abolition of the council provisioll uto pending bui •• (2) a bill pending in the council immediately before the commencement of this act which has been passed by the legislative assembly shall not lapse on the abolition of the council, but on such abolition shall be deemed to have been passed before such commencement by lz5 both houses of the legislature of the state of tamil nadu in the form in which it was passed by the legislative assembly (3) if a bill which having been passed by the legislative assemb17 is, before the commencement of this act, either rejected by the councll or passed by the council, with amendments, the legislative assembly 30 may, after such commencement, pass the bill again with or without such amendments, if any, as have been made by the counell and the bill 80 passed shall be deemed to be a bill introduced in and puaed by the legislative assembly after the commencement of this act power to 8 the appropriate government may, before the expiration of one year s5 adapt laws from the commencement of this act, by order, published in the oftlcial gazette, make such adaptations end modifications of any law made before &'uch commencement whether by 'yay of repeal or amendment as may be neces8ary or expedient in consequence of the aboutlon of the coudcdl undw section 3, and thereupon every such law hall have dad subject to the adaptations and modifications so made power to codstrue laws 9 notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under section 8 for the adaptation or modification of a law 5 made before the commencement of this act, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered to enforce such law may construe the law in such manner, without aff~cting the substance, as may be neces-  sary or proper on account of the abolition of the council, in regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority  statement of objects and reasonsunder article 169 of the constitution, parliament may, by law, provide for the abolition of the legislative council of a state having ~uch a council, if the legislative assembly of the state passes a resolution to that effect by a majority of the total membership of the assembly and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of the assembly prest'nt and voting on the 14th may, 1986, the legislative assembly of the state of tamil nadu passed a resolution in terms of article 169 of the constitution for the abolition of the legislative council of that state it is accordingly proposed to abolish the legislative council of the state of tamil nadu 2 the bill seeks to give effect to this object and also provides for matters supplemental, incidental and consequential to such abolition h r bhardwaj nzw dam; the 4th august, 1986  memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 8 of the bill empowers the appropriate government to make such adaptations and modifications of any law ~ade before the commencement of the proposed legislation as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of the abolition of the legislative council of the state of tamil nadu this power will be available only for a period of one year from the commencement of the proposed legislation the adaptations and modifications can be only such as are necessary or expedient in consequence of the abolition of the council and cannot affect the substance of the laws adapted or modified 2 the dele~ation of legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character  -  - • - cuap'ier ill tin; state lbmsutud186 (1)    ' (4) in the states of bihar, tamil nadu, maharashtra, karnataka and uttar pradesh two houses;      extracts from "the rmpdsj:ntatlon of tidl plilopli act, 1950 (43 of 1950) -     the third schedule(see section 10) allucation of seats in the legislative councils name of state total number to be elected or nominated under article 171(3) sub-subclaulle c1auie (4) (,) number ofaeata sub-sub-subclause clalllo clause (0) (6) (e) 6 7 2 3 4-5  -   - &3 21 6 6 +    21 9  tamilndu -  the fourth schedule[see section 27 (2) ] local authorities fen' purposes of elections to legis14tive council8   - - tamil nadu 1 municipalities 2 panchayat union councus 3 omtmunent boards 4 town panchayats notified under the tamil nadu panchlyats act, 1958 (tamil nadu act xxxv of 1958), that is to say, panchayatb having a ,population estimated at not less than fivethoulalld and an annual income e1tima~ at not less than ten thowland rupees  - - •• - -  'the delimitation of council constituencies '(madras) order, 1951in pursuance of section 11 of the representation of the people act, 1950 (43 of 1950), the president is pleased to make the following order, namely:-1 this order may be caned the delimitation of councll constituencies (madras) order, 1951 2 'l'he constituencies into which the state of tamil nadu ihall be divided for the purpose of elections to the legislative councll of the state from: (4) the graduates' constituencies, (b) the teachers' cowltuencies, and (c) the local authorities' constituencies in the said state, the extent of each such constituency and the number of beata allotted to each such constituency shall be as shown in the following table:-| extent                                                    | of              | collltituency    ||-----------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|------------------|| number                                                    |                 |                  || of sea                                                    |                 |                  || til                                                       |                 |                  || name                                                      | of              | conatituency     ||                                                         |                 |                  || :1                                                        |                 |                  || --------------------------------------------------------- |                 |                  || graduatls'                                                | constilrl",cils |                  || madras                                                    |                 |                  || district                                                  |                 |                  || i                                                        |                 |                  || madra,                                                    | district        |                  || gradultes                                                 |                 |                  || ch'mtalpsttu,                                             |                 |                  || notth arc,,'t                                             | and             | south areal      || districts                                                |                 |                  || 3                                                        |                 |                  || tamil                                                     | nadu            |                  || but                                                       |                 |                  || ccntralgraduates                                          |                 |                  || thanjavur, thiruchitapalli and puduk-                     |                 |                  || kottai                                                    |                 |                  || districts                                                |                 |                  || 4                                                        | tamil           |                  || nadu                                                      | welt            | central          || graduatc5                                                 |                 |                  || salem, dharmapuri, coimbatore,                            |                 |                  || periyar                                                   |                 |                  || and nilgiria districli                                   |                 |                  || 5                                                        | tamil           | nadu             || madurai                                                  |                 |                  || anna,                                                     | ramanathapuram |                  || kamarajar,                                                | paaumpon        |                  || muthura-                                                  |                 |                  || malin$am,                                                 |                 |                  || tirudeiveu                                                | and kannlya-    |                  || kuman                                                     |                 |                  || qtrietl                                                  |                 |                  || t,od!irs'                                                 |                 |                  || gmmlfllneils                                              |                 |                  || maciru and                                                | chenplpattu     | districts        |6 madl'iii chenplpattu teachen north areat and south arcot diltrlcta 7 north atcot, south areat teachen tlaaqjawr, 'ftdrw:binpaui and pull  bull diltricu salem, dhannapuri, colmbalore, periyar and nupii diatricii g  dbaraatpuri, ooimhaecn, periyu-, nu,iril teiabert maclurai aliq", ramallatbaplll'aas, ~ uid p-,'ulupon !4iathurlualing  m dillrkx •• 10 m,:llitai~u!d'a!lq "owjl· rami"" tqpuradac\ud·lt&ja ,rj if"ouid' p4i&idpdd m,atlwr;aaaalldpid tacher 14 narda aroot local autharldel narth arcot diitdct \i 15 south arcot local authoridal south arcot diitrict i 16 thl'ljavw' local authorities 'l'banjavur diltrict q 17 thii'iiclait"p1w, pliriuk\uttll lx,1 all' l'bitllchlrapo\ui and pildukkottal districts \i tboridei ig colmb,lich'e, pcrlyar, nllgiris local au· ooimbatore, per\yar and nil,lril diatrictl q thoridea qo madurai-oum-anila'loeai authoritiel madurai and diatrlctl ramaoathapuram, k ~lr and pa'uldpon ii muthur  malllllaid diltricts iu ramao thapuram·eum·k lm irajarcum·p lsumpcld mlithuram~ul\lam local authorltlel !ill tiranelnu local authorl_ as kauaiyakumarl local authorltlcs s ally reference ill thia order to a diltrict aball be collltrued ai a reference to the area compo tiled within that diltrict oil the 15th day of september, 198s  billto provide for the aboution of the legislative council of the state of tamil nadu and for matters supplemental, incidental and consequential thereto (shri h r bhardwaj, minister 01 sttlle ill 'he mlni3try of law and iustf£e)' 