CHAPTER IX Rules, By-Laws and Repeals

Section 115: Succession to property, assets rights, liabilities and obligation in certain cases

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) On and from the date of commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 1994—

(a) all property, interest in property and assets, including cash balances, wherever situate, which immediately before such date were vested in the Gram Sabha shall veet in and be held by the Gram Panchayat for the purposes of this Act ; and

(b) all rights, liabilities and obligations of the aforesaid Gram Sabha whether arising out of any contract or otherwise, existing immediately before such date, shall be the rights, liabilities and obligations of the Gram Panchayat.

(2) Where any doubt or dispute arises as to whether any property, interest or asset has vested in a Gram Panchayat under sub-section (1), or any right, liability or obligation has become the right, liability or obligation of a Gram Panchayat such doubt or dispute shall be referred in the manner prescribed to the State Government whose decision shall, unless superseded by any decision of a court of law, be final.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Ins. by sec. 59 of U.P. Act No. 9 of 1994.

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