CHAPTER VIII Penalties and Procedure

Section 109-A: Custody and mode of proof of records

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[(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other provisions of this Act,—

(a) all records of a Gram Panchayat shall be in the custody of its Secretary;

(b) The Secretary shall give to a person, on an application and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed, a copy of any such records and certify it as a true copy under his signature and seal of the Gram Panchayat.

(2) A duly certified copy of any record of a Gram Panchayat shall be received as prima facie evidence of the existence of the record and shall be admitted as evidence of the matter therein recorded in every case, where and to the same extent as the original record would, if produced, have been admissible to prove such matters.]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by sec. 5 of U.P. Act 33 of 1999.

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