(1) This Regulation may be called the North-East Frontier Agency Panchayat Raj Regulation, 1967.
(2) It extends to the whole of the North-East Frontier Agency.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Governor may, by notification, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Regulation and for different areas.
2. In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(i) "Agency Council" means the Agency Council constituted under section 57;
(H) "Anchal Samiti" means an Anchal Samiti constituted under section 4;
(Hi) "Block" means such area as may be declared by the Governor under section 3 to be a Block;
(iy) "Deputy Commissioner" means the Deputy Commissioner of a District;
(u) "District" means a District of the North-East Frontier Agency;
(m) "Governor" means the Governor of Assam;
(mi) "Gram Panchayat" means a village authority constituted under the Assam Frontier (Administration of Justice) Regulation, 1945, by whatever name called;
(vnt) "North-East Frontier Agency" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the North-East Frontier Areas (Administration) Regulation, 1954;
(ix) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(x) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation;
Assam Regulation 1 of 1945.
1 of 1954.
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(xi) "Sub-divisional Officer" means the Additional Deputy Commissioner or the Assistant Commissioner in charge of a subdivision;
(T?<) "village" means an area recognised to be a village at the commencement of this Regulation and includes any area which the Governor may, by notification, declare to be a village-
(xiii) "Zilla Parishad" means a Zilla Parishad constituted under section 51.
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3. The Governor may, by notification declare such contiguous areas in a District as he deems fit to be a Block for the purposes of this Regulation and may specify the Gram Panchayats in the Block:
Provided that no area included in a municipality, town committee or cantonment constituted under any law for the time being in force shall be included in a Block.