The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend with such restrictions or modifications as it thinks fit, to Dadra and Nagar Haveli any enactment which is in force in a State at the date of the notification.

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Without prejudice to the powers of the Central Government to appoint from time to time such officers and authorities as may be necessary for the administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, all judges, magistrates and other officers and authorities who immediately before the appointed day were exercising lawful functions in Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli or any part thereof shall, until other provision is made by law, continue to exercise in connection with the administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli their respective functions in the same manner and to the same extent as before the appointed day.

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(1) This Act may be called the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Act, 1961.

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(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

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(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 11th day of August, 1961.

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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

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(a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;

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(b) "appointed day" means the eleventh day of August, 1961;

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(c) "Dadra and Nagar Haveli" means the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli;

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(d) "Varishta Panchayat" means the Varishta Panchayat as in existence immediately before the appointed day.

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(1) There shall be allotted one seat to the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in the House of the People.

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(2) In the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950),—

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(a) in section 4, in sub-section (1), after the words "to the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands". the words ", to Dadra and Nagar Haveli" shall be inserted:

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(b) in the First Schedule,

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(i) after entry 21, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—

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22. Dadra and Nagar Haveli..........1;

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(ii) entries 22 and 23 shall be re-numbered as entries 23 and 24 respectively.

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(3) In the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951), in section 4, after the words "to the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands", the words ", to Dadra and Nagar Haveli" shall be inserted.

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