[18. (1) A Zila Panchayat shall consist of an Adhyaksha who shall be its Chairperson, and -
(a) Pramukhs of all Kshettra Panchayats in the district ;
(b) elected members, who shall be chosen by direct election from the territorial constituencies in the Panchayat area and for this purpose the Panchayat area shall be divided into territorial constituencies in such manner that, so far as practicable, each such territorial constituency shall have a population of fifty thousand ;
[Provided that in the hill districts of Nainital, Almora, Pithoragarh, Tehri, Pauri, Dehradun, Chamoli or Uttarkashi, the State Government may declare an area within a radius of seven kilometers (diameter of fourteen kilometers) from the center of the village specified by it in this behalf, or an area equivalent thereto as may be prescribed, to be a territorial constituency though such constituency may have a population of less than fifty thousand :
Provided further that in the territorial constituency of a Zila Panchayat, no territorial constituency of a Kshettra Panchayat comprised within it, shall be included in part. ]
(c) the members of the House of the People and the members of the Legislative Assembly of the State representing constituencies which comprise any part of the Panchayat area ;
(d) the members of the council of States and the members of the State Legislative Council who are registered as electors within the Panchayat area.
(2) The members of the Zila Panchayat mentioned in clauses (a), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1) shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings and vote at the meetings of the Zila Panchayat except in matters of election of, and on a motion of no-confidence against, the Adhyaksha or the Upadhyaksha.
(3) Each territorial constituency referred to in clause (b) of subsection (1) shall be represented by one member.
[(4) The territorial constituencies of a Zila Panchayat may be delimitated in the prescribed manner and if necessary rules in this regard may be made with retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 1994. ]