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CHAPTER – II CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES · ELECTORAL ROLLS

Section 13-C: Qualifications for election of member

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[A person shall not be qualified for being chosen as and for being a member unless, —

(a) he is an elector for any ward in the municipality ;

(b) in the case of a seat reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the backward classes or the women, he is a person belonging to the said category, as the case may be ;

(c) he has attained the age of twenty one years. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 93 of U. P. Act no. 12 of 1994.

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