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Section 68: Method and manner of election of member and term of Committees specified in sub-section (1) of Section 64

Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayat and Zila Panchayat ActState Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 33 of 1961

68. (1) The election of members of the committees specified in sub-section (1) of section 64 shall be made by the method of single transferable vote and in the manner to be prescribed.

(2) The term of each committee specified in sub-section (1) of section 64 shall last till the term of the [Zila Panchayat] but one-third of the elected members of each committee shall retire in rotation each year and the vacancies caused by rotation shall be filled in the manner provided in sub-section (1).

(3) The determination of the members who shall retire in the first year after their election and of the members who shall retire two years after election shall be made by the drawing of lots in the manner to be specified by the State Government.

(4) In the event of a vacancy occurring in the office of an elected member of a committee by reasons of death, resignation or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term of such member by electing another member in the manner provided in sub-section (1).

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ActUttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayat and Zila Panchayat Act
Section68
Marginal noteMethod and manner of election of member and term of Committees specified in sub-section (1) of Section 64
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, U. P. Act No. 09 of 1994. Subs. by sec. 61 of U. P. Act No. 09 of 1994.

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