State Act

Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act, 2001_English

Section 61 Tenure of Zila Parishad - (a) 1[Every Zila Parishad] save as otherwise provided in this Act, shall continue for a term of five years from the date of its first meeting and not more than this. (b) By virtue of any amendment in any law in force for the time being a 1[Zila Parishad] which have been functioning since immediately before such amendment, shall not be disclosed till expiry of this period specified in sub-section (a). 2[(c) Election for constituting a Zila Parishad shall be got completed before the expiry of the term of office of a Zila Parishad as specified in sub-section (a), and in case of its dissolution, before the expiry of a period of six months from the date of dissolution of the Zila Parishad; Provided that if the remaining period of the dissolved Zila Parishad, during which it would have been functional, is less than six months, then no election whatsoever shall be necessary under this Section; Provided also that a Zila Parishad constituted on dissolution of a Zila Parishad before the expiry of the period of the term of the earlier Zila Parishad shall be functional only for that remaining portion of the period during which the dissolved Zila Parishad, had it not been dissolved so, would have been functional under sub-section (a)]