(1). There shall be JO (ten) constituencies in a Village Council Area for electing members to the Village Council. Each such constituency shall be a single rnember constituency and shall be territorial.
(2). There shall be 26 (twenty six) constituencies covering the Council Area for electing memb,~rs to the General Council. Each constituency shall be a single member constituency and territorial.
(3). The Government shall, by order published in the official Gazette, determine the territorial limits of the constituencies into which the village Council Are<! or the Council Area shall be delimited for the purpose of election of members to the Village Council and the General Council.
49. Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 48 above, the Government may, by order published in the official Gazette, alter or amend the order made under Section 48:
Provided that no such order shall be made after the commencement of the election prrn..:ess.
50.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, so much of the electoral roll the Assembly Constituency in force on the last date of nomination, as is relatablc to a village Council constituency, as defined in clause (b) of section 2, shall be the electoral roll for that Village Council constituency.
(2) The electoral rolls of the Village Council constituencies as . are relatable to a constituency of the General Council, as defined in clause (b) of section · 2, shall be the electoral roll for the constituency of the General Council.
(3) Persons whose names are included in the electoral roll as aforesaid in sub-section (I) or (2) above, shall be the electorate for the election of members of the Village Council or the General Council, as the case inay be.
(4) The Government shall, at the time and in the manner prescribed, cause to be published the electoral roll in respect of a constituency.
51.(I) Save as otherwise provided in this Act every person whose name is entered in the electoral roll for the time being in force, of any constituency shall be entitled to vote in that constituency.
(2) No person shall vote at an election in any constituency, if he is subject to any of the disqualification referred to in Section 10 of the Representattion of Peoples Act,
1951.
Central Act,43 of 1951.
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Qualification for member ship of village council or General Council.
Disqualification for member-ship of Village Council or General Council.
(3) No person shall vote in more than one constituency.
(4) No person shall vote in the sam\! constituency more than once.
(5) No person shall vote at ariy election if he is confined in a prison, whether under a sentence of innrisonment or otherwise or in the lawful custody-of police:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to a person subjected to preventive detention under any law for the time being in force.
52. Election of members shall be held in accordance with the rules made under section 60 and 'the first election for the purpose of constituting the General . touncil and the Village Council shall be held on such date or dates as the Government may direct in consultation with the interim Sonowal Kachari Executive Council referred to in section 80.
53. A person shall be qualified to he elected as member of either the Village Council or the General Council if he is an elector as defined in clause (f) of section 2.