The Assam Panchayat (2nd Amendment) Act, 1964
The 22nd December 1964

## No.LJL.36/64/4.—Th e following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly

which received the assent of the Governor is hereby published for general

inform ation.

## (Received the assent of the Governor on the 21st December, 1964)

 ASSAM ACT No. XXVIH OF 1964

TH E ASSAM PANCHAYAT (SECOND AMENDMENT) AC T, 1964

[Published in the _Assam Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 24th_

December, 1964]

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 farther to amend the Assam Panchayat Act$ 1959

**Preamble** Whereas it is expedient further to amend the A ct

Assam Panchayat Act, 1959 hereinafter called the oi

principal Act, in the manner hereinafter appearing ;

It is hereby enacted in the Fifteenth Year of the

Republic of India as follows:—

Short itlc, 1. (1) This Act m ay be ca lled th e Assam

exte and Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act,

commence- j 964

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(2) It shall have the like extent as the

principal Act.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

Amendment 2. j n sub-section (5) of Section 14 of the principal

ofAssam Ac.Act—-for clause (ii), the following shall be substitu-

XXIV of ted, nam ely

1959,

“ (ii) Th e voting shall be by show of hands except

in case of election or no-confidence motion

when voting shall be by secret ballot”.

Amendment
of Section 16 Sub-section (3) of Section 16 of the principal

of Assam Act Act shall be deleted.

X X IV of

1959.

Am endment
of Section lg 4. In sub-section (1) of Section 19 of the princi­
of Assam Act pal Act,-—(1) in the second proviso after the

X XIV of 1959, word “co-opted” punctuation “ (, )” shall be deleted ; X

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(2) after punctuation “ ( , )” as so deleted, the

words and punctuation “or nom inated,” shall be
inserted between the words “co-opted” and “the” .

Amendment 5. j n s u [b.]s e c [tion (1) of Section 22 of the prin- ]

tion 22 of cipal Act, for the second proviso, the following

Assam Act shall be substituted, namely:-—

X XIV of

1959.
“Provided further that the Mohkuma Parishad

shall from within the area of its jurisdic­
tion, co-opt two women members, if no

wom an is a mem ber and one woman, if

only one is a member.”

^ f [6 n d i] Sec- Section 24 of the principal Act—

tio n 24 of
Assam Act
X XIV of

1959.

(1) in sub-section (2), for the brackets and

figures “ (ii) and (iii)” occurring between

the words, bracket and figure “clauses
(i)” , and “of”, the brackets and figures

and word “ (iii) and (iv)” shall be

substituted ;

(2) in clause (b) the words “ Legislative

Assembly” shall be substituted by the

word “Legislature” ;

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(3) in clause (c) for the words “School Board”

occurring between the word “ the” and
“as” the words “ Co-operative Central

Bank” shall be substituted ;

(4) in sub-section (3), for the bracket and

figure “ (IV )” occurring between the

words “ clause” and “ of”, the bracket

and figure “ (V)” shall be substituted.

U. TAHBILD AR,

Deputy Secy, to the Govt, of Assam,

Law Department.


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