THE ANDHRA PRADESH (TRANSFERRED TERRITORIES) EXTENSION OF LAWS ACT, 1961

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    "title": "THE ANDHRA PRADESH (TRANSFERRED TERRITORIES) EXTENSION OF LAWS ACT, 1961",
    "short_title": "The Andhra Pradesh (Transferred Territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1961",
    "act_number": "07",
    "act_year": 1961,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1961-01-24",
    "description": "The Andhra Pradesh (Transferred Territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1961",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "An Act to extend the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Samithis and Zilla Parishads Act, 1959, the Madras District Boards Act, 1920, and the Madras Village Panchayats Act, 1950, as in force in Andhra area to the territories in State ofAndhra Pradesh specified in the First Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 (Central Act LVI of 1959).\nBe it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the Eleventh year of the Republic of India as follows:",
            "footnote": "Central Act LVI of 1959",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, extent and Commencement",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Section 1 Short title, extent and Commencement",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh (Transferred Territories Extension of Laws Act, 1961.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
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            "content": "(2) It extends to the Territories specified in the First Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 (Central Act LVI of 1959).",
            "footnote": "Central Act LVI of 1959",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(3) It shall come into force at once.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Section 2 Definitions\nIn this Act,",
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            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(1)",
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            "content": "(1) \"Andhra area\" means the territories specified in sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Andhra State Act, 1953 (Central Act XXX of 1953);",
            "footnote": "Central Act XXX of 1953",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) \"Transferred territories\" means the territories specified in the First Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 (Central Act LVI of 1959).",
            "footnote": "Central Act LVI of 1959",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Extension of Andhra Pradesh Act XXXV of 1959 and Madras Acts XVI of 1920 and X of 1950 to the transferred territories",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Section 3 Extension of Andhra Pradesh Act XXXV of 1959 and Madras Acts XVI of 1920 and X of 1950 to the transferred territories\nThe following Acts, namely:",
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            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(i)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) The Andhra Pradesh Panchayat samithi and Zilla parishads Act, 1959 (Andhra Pradesh Act XXXV of 1959);",
            "footnote": "Andhra Pradesh Act XXXV of 1959",
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            "sort_order": 90
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(ii)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) The Madras District Board Act, 1920 (Madras Act XIV of 1920);",
            "footnote": "Madras Act XIV of 1920",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 100
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(iii)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(iii) The Madras Village Panchayats Act, 1950 (Madras Act X of 1950) as in force in the Andhra area at the commencement of this Act and all the rules, regulations, bye-laws, notifications and orders made or issued thereunder are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the transferred territories and the territorial extent of the Acts, rules, regulations bye-laws; notifications and orders so extended shall, as from such commencement, be deemed to include the transferred territories.",
            "footnote": "Madras Act X of 1950",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 110
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Repeals and savings",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Section 4 Repeals and savings\nThe following Acts, namely:\n(i) the Madras District Boards Act. 1920;\n(ii) the Madras Village Panchayats Act, 1950;\n(iii) the Madras District Development Councils Act, 1958;\n(iv) the Madras Panchayats Act, 1958;\nas in force in the transferred territories immediately before the commencement of this Act are hereby repealed:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 120
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 4",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Provided that such repeal shall not affect the previous operation of the said Acts and any panchayat constituted or deemed to have been constituted under the repealed Madras Village Panchayats Act, 1950, and functioning at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been constituted under the Madras Village Panchayat Act, 1950, as extended by Section 3.",
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            "sort_order": 130
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Power to remove difficulties",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Section 5 Power to remove difficulties\r\nIf any difficulty arises in giving effect in the transferred territories to the provisions of any Act extended by Section 3 to those territories, the State Government may, by order notified in Andhra Pradesh Gazette, make such provisions or give such directions as appear to them to be necessary for the removal of the difficulty.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 140
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "196107",
        "Act Number": "07",
        "Enactment Date": "1961-01-24",
        "Act Year": "1961",
        "Short Title": "The Andhra Pradesh (Transferred Territories) Extension of Laws Act, 1961",
        "Department": "Legislature of the State of Andhra Pradesh",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}