CHAPTER II-A Disqualifications of members of Gram Panchayat and electoral rolls etc

Section 9-A: Right to vote etc

The Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1947

How current this text is

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.

Except as otherwise provided by or under this Act, every person whose name is for the time being included in the electoral roll for a territorial constituency ¹[of a Gram Panchayat] shall be entitled to vote at any election and be eligible for election, nomination or appointment to any office in the Gram Panchayat ²[ x x x ] :

[Provided that a person who has not completed the age of twenty-one years shall not be qualified to be elected as a member or office bearer of the Gram Panchayat.]³

Footnotes in the official text

1.Ins. by section 5(a) of U.P. Act No. 21 of 1995.
2.Omit. by section 4 of U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.
3.Subs. by section 11 of U.P. Act No. 9 of 1994.

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