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CHAPTER III-A Gram Panchayats

Section 14-A: Punishment for failure to handover records, etc.1

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.

Outgoing Pradhan’s obligation to deliver records and money of Gram Sabha.

2[(1) If any person on ceasing to act as Pradhan of a Gram Panchayat wilfully fails in spite of being required to do so by the prescribed authority to handover all records, money or other property of Gram Panchayat to his successor or to a any person authorised in the behalf by the prescribed authority, he shall be punishable imprisonment which may extend to three years or with fine or with both.]

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), any such money may on a certificate issued in that behalf by the prescribed authority be recovered as arrears of land revenue.]3

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by section 12(a) of U.P. Act No. 37 of 1978.
  2. 2.Subs. by section 9 of U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.
  3. 3.Ins. by section 6 of U.P. Act No. 3 of 1973.

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