Assam Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997

No: 23 Dated: Sep, 15 1997

THE ASSAM PANCHAYAT (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997

ASSAM ACT No. XXIII OF 1997

    An Act further to amend the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994.

    Preamble:- Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, in the manner hereinafter appearing ;

    It is hereby enacted in the Forty eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—

1. Short Title, Extent and Commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Assam Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997.

(2) It shall have the like extent as the Principal Act,

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of Section 65:- In the principal Act, in Section 65 in Sub-Section (1) in clause (i)—

(i) in the second proviso, for the punctuation mark full-stop occuring at the end of the last line, the punctuation mark colon **• shall be substituted.

(ii) after the second proviso, the following new proviso shall be inserted, namely :—

‘‘Provided further more that the Legislative Assembly Constituency which has urban population, included in a Municipality or a Municipal Corporation, as the case may be or under the authority of Town Committee or Sanitary Board or Cantonment area or any notified area deemed to be urban area under any law for the time being in force, may have less than four territorial constituencies and if the rural population of this Legislative Assembly Constituency is less than thirty thousand, this may form a territoral constituency.”