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Article 239 Constitution of India: Administration of Union territories.


 
Category of Bare Act Name of the Act Year of Promulgation
Civil Laws The CONSTITUTION OF INDIA 1975
Act Number Enactment Date Chapter Number
36 1975-04-26 8
Chapter Title Ministry Department
The Union Territories Ministry of Law And Justice Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms

1[THE UNION TERRITORIES]
2[(1) Save as otherwise provided by Parliament by law, every Union territory shall be administered by the President acting, to such extent as he thinks fit, through an administrator to be appointed by him with such designation as he may specify.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Part VI, the President may appoint the Governor of a State as the administrator of an adjoining Union territory, and where a Governor is so appointed, he shall exercise his functions as such administrator independently of his Council of Ministers.

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1. Subs. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 17, for the heading “THE STATES IN PART C OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE”.

2. Subs. by s.17, ibid., for arts. 239 and 240.

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