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Section 8: Strength of a Village Panchayat

The Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act,1994State Act of Tamil Nadu · Act 21 of 1994

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 12 or any other provisions of this Act, the total number of members of a Village Panchayat (exclusive of its President) shall be notified by the Inspector in accordance with such scale as may be prescribed with reference to population of the Panchayat Village concerned, as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published.

(2) The Inspector may, from time to time, by notification, alter the total number of members of a Village Panchayat notified under sub-section (1).

(3) The number notified under sub-section (1) or the number as altered by notification under sub-section (2) shall not be less than five or more than 1[fifteen].

1. Substituted for the expression “twenty-one” vide Tamil Nadu Act 17 of 2006 w.e.f. 14.7.2006.

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ActThe Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act,1994
Section8
Marginal noteStrength of a Village Panchayat
JurisdictionState of Tamil Nadu
StatusIn force as published by the source

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