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                               FIFTH SCHEDULE
                                   [Article 244(1)]
  Provisions as to the Administration and Control of Scheduled Areas and
                                 Scheduled Tribes
                                      PART A
                                      GENERAL
       1. Interpretation.—In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise
requires, the expression “State” 1*** does not include the 2[States of Assam
3 4
 [, [Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.]]]
       2. Executive power of a State in Scheduled Areas.—Subject to the
provisions of this Schedule, the executive power of a State extends to the
Scheduled Areas therein.                                e
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       3. Report by the Governor 5*** to the President regarding the
administration of Scheduled Areas.—The Governor 5*** of each State having
                                               aC
Scheduled Areas therein shall annually, or whenever so required by the President,
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make a report to the President regarding the administration of the Scheduled
Areas in that State and the executive power of the Union shall extend to the
                                       In
giving of directions to the State as to the administration of the said areas.
                                      PART B
           ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF SCHEDULED AREAS AND
                                SCHEDULED TRIBES
       4. Tribes Advisory Council.—(1) There shall be established in each
State having Scheduled Areas therein and, if the President so directs, also in
any State having Scheduled Tribes but not Scheduled Areas therein, a Tribes
Advisory Council consisting of not more than twenty members of whom, as
nearly as may be, three-fourths shall be the representatives of the Scheduled
Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of the State:

1. The words and letters "means a State specified in Part A or Part B of the First
   Schedule but" omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 29 and
   Sch. (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).
2. Subs. by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 (81 of 1971), s. 71, for
   "State of Assam" (w.e.f. 21-1-1972).
3. Subs. by the Constitution (Forty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1984, s. 3, for "and
   Meghalaya" (w.e.f. 1-4-1985).
4. Subs. by the State of Mizoram Act, 1986 (34 of 1986), s. 39, for "Meghalaya and
   Tripura" (w.e.f. 20-2-1987).
5. The words "or Rajpramukh" omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act,
   1956, s. 29 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).
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