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17. The Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 1964—Article 31A was further amended to
prohibit the acquisition of land under personal cultivation unless the market value of the land is paid
as compensation and the definition of “estate” as contained in that Article had also been enlarged
with retrospective effect. The Ninth Schedule had also been amended to include 44 more Acts.
18. The Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 1966—Article 3 was amended by this Act to
specify that the expression “State” will include a union territory also and to make it clear that the
power to form a new state under this Article includes a power to form a new state or union territory
by uniting a part of a state or a union territory to another state or union territory.
19. The Constitution (Nineteenth Amendment) Act, 1966—Article 324 was amended to effect a
consequential change as a result of the decision to abolish Election Tribunals and to hear election
petitions by High Courts.
