13Provisional Legislative Assembly

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act (including provisions relating to the strength of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa), on and from the appointed day and until the Legislative Assembly of that State has been duly constituted and summoned to meet for the first session, there shall be a provisional Legislative Assembly which shall consist of,—

(a) members elected by the territorial constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of the existing Union territory, other than those members elected by the territorial constituencies of Daman and Diu; and

(b) members nominated to that Assembly.

(2) The period of five years referred to in clause (1) of Article 172 shall, in the case of provisional Legislative Assembly referred to in sub-section (1), be deemed to have commenced on the date on which the duration of the Legislative Assembly of the existing Union territory commenced under section 5 of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 (20 of 1963).

(3) For so long as the provisional Legislative Assembly constituted under this section is in existence,—

(a) it shall be deemed to be the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa duly constituted under the Constitution and shall be competent to discharge all the functions of a Legislative Assembly of a State under the Constitution; and

(b) the members thereof, referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1), shall be deemed to be the members of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa duly elected under the Constitution.