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This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2016), s.194(1); it may still apply to matters that began before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

117- (1) All debts and obligation incurred and all contracts made by or on behalf of the [Gram Sabha]3 before the date referred in sub-section (1) of section 115 and subsisting on the said date shall be Gram Panchayat in exercise of the powers conferred on it by this Act and shall continue in operation accordingly. (2) All proceedings pending before any authority of the said [Gram Sabha]1 on the said date, which under the provisions of this Act, are required to be instituted before or undertaken by the Gram Panchayat and all other such proceedings shall, so far as may be, be transferred to and continued by such authority before or by whom they have to be instituted or undertaken under the provisions of this Act. (3) All appeals pending before any authority of the said [Gram Sabha]1 on the said date shall so for as may be practicable be disposed of, as if there was a Gram Panchayat when they were filed. (4) All prosecutions instituted by or on behalf of the said [Gram Sabha]1 and all suits and other leal prceeding instituted by or against the said [Gram Sabha]1 or any officer of the said [Gram Sabha]1 pending on the said date, shall be continued by or against the Gram Panchayat or the officer as the case may be, as if there was a Gram Panchayat constituted when such prosecution, suit or proceeding was instituted.