State Act

THE UNITED PROVINCES PANCHAYAT RAJ ACT, 1947

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2016), s.194(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

11-E (1) A person shall be disqualified for being elected to or holding the office of Pradhan or member of Gram Panchayat or a Panchayat of a Nyaya Panchayat, if he is-- (a) a member of Parliament or of the State Legislature; or [(b) member, Pramukh or Up-Pramukh of a Kshettra Panchayat; or (c) member, Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of a Zila Panchayat; or]1 (d) Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of any co-operative society. (2) A person shall cease to hold the office of Pradhan or member of the Gram Panchayst or Panch of a Nyaya Panchayat, as the case may be, if subsequently he is elected to any of the offices mentioned in clauses (a) to (d) of sub-section (1), with effect from the date of such subsequent election and a casual vacancy shall thereupon occur in the office of such Pradhan or member or Panch, as the case may be. [(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, if in the first elections held after the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 1994 to constitute Panchayats at the village, khand and district levels, a person is chosen member of panchayats at two or more levels, he shall submit his resignation from all but one of these seats within sixty days of the date of the declaration of the result of elections, or if the declaration of the results of elections in respect of the Panchayats at the said two or more levels has been made on different dates, whthin sixty days of the last of such dates and in te event of failure to so resign seates in all the Panchayats except the deat in the highest level amongst the Panchayats to which he had been elected shall be deemed vacant.]2