(r) The Gram Panchayat, unless sooner dissolved und€r any law for the tine being ii forcc, shall continue for five years ftom the date appointed for its frot meoting and no longer.
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&obibitior .gFiDst holdiog o6cc- Elcc-tion of Utrkadhm.
Pridbsn to ba tho Bxec'r|live.
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Rqgigl8tion of offc€.
(2) Notwithstandins anvthins contained in subsection (z) the mcmbcrs of the itanchayas functionin! ;mrnediatety before the coming inio force of this Regulation shail continue to f,old their ofr'ce till the expiration of thq tctE p(€scriSed under sub-section (r) of section 2l of the An*aman aad Nicobar Irlsnds (Panchayats) Regr{ation, 196l as it stood befote its repeal.
- 0) An election to constitute a Gram Panchayat shall .be completed,-
(a) before tle oxpiry of its duration specified in sub-section (r);
(6) before {.he expiration of a period of six months from the dato of its dissolution:
Provided that where tle remainder of the period for which the dissolved Gram Panchayat would have continued is less than six months, it shall'not bc d€cessary to hold aoy election under this sub-section for constituting the Gram Panchayat for such period.
{z) A Gram Panchavat constituted uDon the dissolution of a Gram Pan' chavat'6efore ttre expiratiori on its duration shall continue ooly for the remsioder of lhe period for which the dissolved Gram Pancbayat woild have continued under s-ub-section (r), bad it not betn so dissolved.
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