Assam Municipal (Manipur Amendment) Act, 1961
No: 49 Dated: Dec, 07 1961
THE ASSAM MUNICIPAL (MANIPUR AMENDMENT) ACT, 1961
ACT NO. 49 OF 1961
An Act further to amend the Assam Municipal Act, 1956 as in force in the Union territory of Manipur.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follow:—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Assam Municipal (Manipur Amendment) Act, 1961.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Chief Commissioner, Manipur may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Substitution of new section for section 14.—In the Assam Municipal Act, 1956 (Assam Act XV of 1957), as in force in the Union territory of Manipur (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for section 14, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—
‘14. Electors and electoral rolls.—(1) The persons entitled to vote at elections of Commissioners shall be the persons registered, by virtue of the provisions of the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), as voters at elections to the House of the People.
(2) So much of the electoral roll for any parliamentary constituency for the time being in force as relates to the areas comprised within a ward shall be deemed to the electoral roll for that ward for the purposes of this Act.
Explanation.—In sub-section (2), the expression “parliamentary constituency” has the meaning assigned to it under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950).’.
3. Amendment of section 15.—In section 15 of the principal Act, for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
“(i) is not registered as an elector in the electoral roll for a ward, or”
4. Insertion of new section 15A.—After section 15 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:--
“15A. Right to vote.—(1) Every person whose name is, for the time being, entered in the electoral roll for a ward shall be entitled to vote at the election of a Commissioner from that ward.
(2) In every ward an elector shall have as many votes as there are Commissioners to be elected from that ward but no elector shall at any election give more than one vote to any one candidate.”.
5. Amendment of section 16.—In section 16 of the principal Act,—
(1) for the words “by an unsuccessful candidate or person qualified to vote at the election to which such question refers, such persons”, the words “by any candidate at such election or by any elector of the ward concerned, such candidate or such elector, as the case may be”, shall be substituted:
(2) in the second proviso, for the word “qualified” in both the places where it occurs, the word “entitled” shall be substituted.