Section 27: Disqualification for corrupt practice

Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 2 of 1916

27. The [District Judge] may declare any candidate found to have committed any corrupt practice to be incapable, for any period not exceeding five years, of being elected as a member of the Municipality or of being appointed or retained in any office or place in the gift or disposal of the Municipality :

[Provided that no such declaration shall be made about any candidate who was not a party to the election petition or who was not given an opportunity of being heard under section 26.]

Where this provision sits

Act	Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916
Section	27
Marginal note	Disqualification for corrupt practice
Jurisdiction	State of Uttar Pradesh
Status	In 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. Subs. by sec. 15, 16, 17 of U.P. Act no. 17 of 1982.

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