Delimitation Act, 2002

Delimitation Act, 2002
Parliament of India
Long title An Act to provide for the readjustment of the allocation of seats in the House of the People to the States, the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of each State, the division of each State and each Union territory having a Legislative Assembly into territorial constituencies for elections to the House of the People and Legislative Assemblies of the States and Union territories and for matters connected therewith.
Citation	Act No. 33 of 2002
Territorial extent	India
Enacted by	Lok Sabha
Passed	7 May 2002
Enacted by	Rajya Sabha
Passed	15 May 2002
Assented to	3 June 2002
Commenced	3 June 2002
Legislative history
Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha	Delimitation Bill, 2002
Introduced by	Arun Jaitley, Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs
Repeals
Delimitation Act, 1972
Amended by
Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2003 Delimitation (Amendment) Act, 2008 Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2016 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019
Status: Unknown

The Delimitation Act, 2002 (Act No. 33 of 2002) is an act of the Parliament of India to replace the Delimitation Act, 1972.

Amendments

The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2016, introduced by Law Minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda, seeks to amend Section 11 of the Delimitation Act, 2002. Once passed, the proposed Bill will enable the Election Commission to carry out a limited delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal following the India–Bangladesh enclaves exchange of 51 Bangladeshi and 111 Indian enclaves in July 2015. The enclaves were exchanged pursuant to the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement and 2011 Protocol and Instruments of Ratification during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh on 6–7 June 2015.