10. Provision as to Legislative Assembly as constituted on the appointed day.

(1) On and from the appointed day, the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh to be filled by persons chosen by direct election from Assembly constituencies shall be sixty and the number of seats to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and for the Scheduled Tribes of that State shall be fourteen and three respectively; and the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), shall be deemed to be amended accordingly.

(2) On and from the appointed day, the sixty territorial constituencies of the existing Union territory of Himachal Pradesh shall be deemed to be the constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh and the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1966, shall be construed accordingly.

(3) Every sitting member of the Legislative Assembly of the existing Union territory of Himachal Pradesh representing a territorial constituency which, on the appointed day by virtue of the provisions ofsub-section (2), becomes a constituency of the State of Himachal Pradesh, shall be deemed to have been elected under article 170 to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh by that constituency.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal Pradesh shall be deemed to be duly constituted on the appointed day.