(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the term of office of elected members at ordinary elections shall be five years from the date of the first meeting of the Municipality, after the ordinary elections.
(2) An ex-officio member shall hold office so long as he continues to be the Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State or, as the case may be, of the House of the People, or of the Legislative Council or of the Council of the States.
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(3) The process for election of elected members to any ordinary vacancies shall commence three months before the occurrence of such vacancy.
(4) A member elected at a direct election held after the occurrence of a vacancy, shall enter upon office forthwith, but shall hold office only as long as the member in whose place he is elected would have been entitled to hold office, if the vacancy had not occured.