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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · ELECTORAL ROLLS

Section 12-E: Registration to be in one ward only

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

(1) No person shall be entitled to be registered in the electoral roll for more than one ward or more than once in the electoral roll for the same ward.

(2) No person shall be entitled to be registered in the electoral roll for any ward, if his name is entered in any electoral roll pertaining in 1[Municipal area, Cantonment or area of Gram Panchayat] unless he shows that his name has been struck off such electoral roll.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec 88 of U.P. Act No. 12 of 1994.

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