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CHAPTER I Preliminary

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement

The Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1947

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.

Chapter VI (The Nyaya Panchayat), sections 42 to 94-A, is printed only as a heading with the official footnote "Chapter VI comprising sections 42 to 94-A Omitted by sec. 16 of U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.", so those sections have no pages here.

The marginal headings printed beside each section in this edition are shown as the section headings; sections 37, 37-A, 95-A and 109 carry no marginal heading in this copy.

Marginal references to other enactments (for example "U.P. Act No. I of 1951") printed beside the text are not reproduced.

(1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1947.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of the United Provinces except the area, which has been, or may hereafter be, declared as, or included in 1[a city under the Uttar Pradesh, Nagar Mahapalika Adhiniyam, 1959, or] a municipality 2(or) notified area under the provisions of the United Provinces Municipalities Act, 1916, or as a cantonment under the provisions of the Cantonments Act, 1924, or as a town area under the United Provinces Town Areas Act, 1914.

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(3) It shall come into force at once.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by sec. 2 (a) of U.P. Act No. 37 of 1978.
  2. 2.Subs. by sub-section (2) of section 2 of U.P. Act No. II of 1955.
  3. 3.Del. by sec. 2 (b) of U.P. Act no. 37 of 1978.

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