The provision that lets Parliament create a legislature for a Union territory

Background

The Government Of Union Territories Act, 1963 was enacted by Parliament to give certain Union territories a Legislature and a Council of Ministers of their own. Article 239-A of the Constitution, which came in with the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1962, lets Parliament set up by law a Legislature or a Council of Ministers or both for named Union territories, Pondicherry among them. In pursuance of that provision the Act set up a Legislature and a Council of Ministers in each of them, broadly on the pattern of the Part C States, which the Government of Part C States Act, 1951 had governed. In each Union territory to which it applies there shall be a Legislative Assembly of its own. In that Assembly thirty seats are filled by persons chosen by direct election. The Central Government may nominate up to three persons, who must not be persons in the service of Government, to be members of that Assembly as well. Seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes, and the number of such seats must come as close as it can to the same proportion to the total number of seats as the population of the scheduled castes bears to the total population of the Union territory. Delimitation of the Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in these territories was given to the Delimitation Commission set up under the Delimitation Commission Act, 1962.