Constitution of India, 1949
244-A. Formation of an autonomous State
comprising certain tribal areas in Assam and creation of local Legislature or
Council of Ministers or both therefore.-
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this
Constitution, Parliament may, by law, form within the State of Assam an
autonomous State comprising (whether wholly or in part) all or any of the
tribal areas specified in Part I of the table appended to paragraph 20 of the
Sixth Schedule and create therefor-
(a) a body, whether
elected or partly nominated and partly elected, to function as a Legislature
for the autonomous State, or
(b) a Council of
Ministers, or both with such constitution, powers and functions, in each case,
as may be specified in the law.
(2) Any such law as is referred to in clause
(1) may, in particular,-
(a) specify the
matters enumerated in the State List or the Concurrent List with respect to
which the legislature of the autonomous State shall have power to make laws for
the whole or any part thereof, whether to the exclusion of the Legislature of
the State of Assam or otherwise;
(b) define the matters
with respect to which the executive power of the autonomous State shall extend;
(c) provide that any
tax levied by the State of Assam shall be assigned to the autonomous State in
so far as the proceeds thereof are attributable to the autonomous State;
(d) provide that any
reference to a State in any article of this Constitution shall be construed as
including a reference to the autonomous State; and
(e) make such
supplemental, incidental and consequential provisions as may be deemed
necessary.
(3) An amendment of any such law as aforesaid
in so far as such amendment relates to any of the matters specified in
sub-clause (a) or sub-clause (b) of clause (2) shall have no effect unless the
amendment is passed in each House of Parliament by not less than two-thirds of
the members present and voting.
(4) Any such law as is referred to in this
article shall not be deemed to be an amendment of this Constitution for the
purposes of Article 368 notwithstanding that it contains any provision which
amends or has the effect of amending this Constitution.