(1) Within fifteen days of the declaration of the division of an Anchal into areas of representation, the Collector shall call upon each Grama Panchayat and each Municipality or Notified Area Council within the Anchal te duly elect from jamongst the persons esiding within their respective urisdictions, a repre sentative to the Anchal Sabha and such Grama Pan chayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council shall thereupon elect a representative nthe prescribed manner:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall debar a ; emberi or councor,as_ the case may be, of such Locel authority frombeing so elected to thel Anchal Sabha.
(2) For an area ofr epresentation for which there isno Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Arel Council, there shall be elected in the presscribed manner a representative from amongst the personal ordinarily residing in the said area,to the Ancha Sabha, 46 ose ; 11. If in an Anchal the election does not tion, return 6a representative of a Scheduled Caste, or @ woman and in Anchals specially notified by the State Government in this behalf, a Member belonging to the Scheduled tribe, the Anchal Sabha shall co-opt in the prescribed manner a Member ordinarily residing in the Anchal from each of the class or classes not represented.
Explanation--A person shall be deemed to reside ordinarily in an Anchal if he (<) resides permanently in the Anchal ; or (i#) has his dwelling house within its local limits and occasionally visits it ; or (a) having no dwelling house of his own resides in a building or a part of the building situated within its limits for not less than six months during the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which the election is held ; or (iv) maintains within such limits a dwelling house ready for occupation in charge of servants and occasionally occupies it, Tenureof 12. (1) A Memberelected for an area of represen- Membership. tation under sub-section (2) of section 10, or subsection (3) of section 13, or co-opted under section 11, shall not hold office for more than three years. The Anchal Executive Officer shall at such time and in i such manner as may be prescribed, take stepsbefore the expiry of the term of office of such elected or co-opted Member for the election or co-option of a successor, as the case maybe.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained inthis Act or any rule made thereunder an outgoing Member of the Anchal Sabha shall continue to hold office until his successor enters upon the office in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Vacation of 13. (1) Whenever a Grama Panchayat, Municiandflan? pality or Notified Area Council has been abolished, vacancy. superseded or dissolved, as the case may be, or where the membership in such Local authority, of a representative elected under section 10 expires by efflux of time or ceases otherwise, the representative elected by such Local authority under the said section * shall cease to hold office in the Anchal Sabha. If such | i a Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council is not formed or reconstituted, within the prescribed time in the area of representation, the Anchal Sabha may, in the prescribed manner, co-opt a Member from the said area, who shall continue to hold office pending such formation or reconstitution, Ji nieek:
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(2) If a Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council is formed newly in an Anchal eo-terminus with one or more areas of representation, the Members elected under sub.section (2) of section lu for such area or area. of representation of the Anchal shall vacate the seat from the date on which the notification of election of a representative. from the newly formed Local authority to the Anchal Sabhais published. .
(3) If a Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council is newly formed in an Anchal andits area instead of being co-terminus with the area or areas of representation overlaps other area or areas. so a3 to include a portion or portions thereof in the newly formed Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council, the Members elected under sub-section (2) of section 10 prior to such overlapping for such area or areas of representation shall cease to hold office from the day of re-election as hereinafter provided.
The State Government shall, consequent to such overlapping redistribute’ the area or areas of representation as new areas of representation under clause (4) of section 8 and Members shall be re-elected for such areas in the manner provided in subsection (1) of section 10.
(4) Within fifteen days of tho first meeting of the Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council newly formed or reconstituted by-a general election the Anchal Executive Officer shall call upon the Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council to elect its representative in the prescribed manner to the Anchal Sabha and the Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council concerned shall elect such representative in the preseribed manner,
(5) Ifa seat in an Anchal Sabha falls vacant ander the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder, the Anchal Executive Officer shall call upon the area of representation concerned to elect or move the Anchal Sabha to co-opt, as the case may be, @ new representative to the Anchal Sabha.