Constitution Section 378A — Special provision as to duration of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Part XXI — TEMPORARY, TRANSITIONAL AND — SPECIAL PROVISIONS

Constitutional

Summary

This section overrides the usual five-year term rule for state legislative assemblies. It states that the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, as it was formed under the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, will last for exactly five years from a specific date mentioned in that Act. The Assembly will automatically dissolve at the end of that five-year period, unless it is dissolved earlier.

Official Text

Notwithstanding anything contained in article 172, the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh as constituted under the provisions of sections 28 and 29 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue for a period of five years from the date referred to in the said section 29 and no longer and the expiration of the said period shall operate as a dissolution of that Legislative Assembly.