The Assam Panchayat (2nd Amendment) Act, 1997
Registered No. •• 763/97

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No. 525 Dispar, Monday, 15th September, 1997, 24th **Bharda,**

1919 (S. E.)

##### GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM

 ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

##### NOTIFICATION

 The 15th September 1997

 No. LGL- 130/96/71.—The following Act of the Assam
 Legislative Assembly which received the assent of the
 Governor [is hereby published for general information.


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##### 2306 TH E AS SA M GA ZETTE, EX TRAO RD INAR Y, SEP. 15, 1997

 ASSAM ACT No. XXIII OF 1997

 (Received the Assent of the Governor on 11th September 1997)

 THE ASSAM PANCHAYAT (SECOND AMENDMENT)

 ACT, 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 of’1994. referred to as the principal Act, in the ma­ nner hereinafter appearing ;

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

 extent and’ This Act may be called the Assam

**commence.** Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997.

**meat.**

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

 (3) It shall come into force at once’

 Amendment 2. In the principal Act, in Section

**of** **section** 65, in Sub-Section (1). in clause (i)—

##### (i) in the second proviso, for the punc­
 tuation 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 Muni­ cipality or a Municipal Corporation, as the case may be or under


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THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, SEP. 1997 15,2307

##### the authority of Town Committee or Sani­
 tary 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 cons­ tituencies and if the rural population of this Legislative Assembly Constituency
 is less than thirty thousand, this may form a territoral constituency.”

 IVI. K. DEKA,
 Secretary to the Govt, of Assam,
 Legislative Department.

GUWAHATI-—Printed & published by the Dy. Director (P&Sl

**Directorate** of Ptg. & Sty. ,Assam. Guw ahati-21

(Ex-Gazette), No. 1049-7 50- 6 0 0 -1 5 -9 —1997.


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