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Central Acts and Rules Amended and Updated
U.P. Municipalities Act,
1916
1. Short title, extent and
commencement.
2. Definitions.
3. Declaration etc. of transitional
area and smaller urban area.
3A. Municipality for every
transitional area and smaller
urban area.
3B. Constitution and
composition of Ward
Committee.
4. Preliminary procedure to
issue notification.
5. Effect of including area in
transitional area or smaller
urban area.
6.7. Duties of Municipality.
8. Discretionary functions of
Municipalities.
8A.
9. Composition of Municipality.
9A. Reservation of seats.10.
10A. Term of municipality.10AA.
11.11A. Delimitation of wards.
11B. Delimitation Order.
11C. Amendment of Delimitation
Order.
12.12A. Election of members.
12B. Electoral roll for every
ward.
12C. Qualification for electors.
12D. Disqualifications for
registration in an electoral roll.
12E. Registration to be in one
ward only.
12F. Correction of electoral roll.
12G. Revision of electoral rolls.
12H. Order regarding electoral
rolls.
13.13A. General election.
13B. Superintendence etc. of the
conduct of the elections.
13C. Qualifications for election
of member.
13D. Disqualification for
membership.
13E. Right to vote.13F.
13G. Order regarding conduct of
elections.
13H. Bye-elections.
13I Certain casual vacancies not
(2) The Governor may, by a subsequent notification under clause (2) of Article 243-Q of the Constitution,
include or exclude any area in or from a transitional area or a smaller urban area referred to in sub-section
(1), as the case may be.]
(3) [The notifications referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2)] shall be subject to the condition of the notification
being issued after the previous publication required by Section 4 and notwithstanding anything in this section,
no area which is, or is part of, a cantonment shall be declared to be a transitional area or a smaller urban
area or be included therein under this section.
[3A. Municipality for every transitional area and smaller urban area. -] [(1) A municipality constituted
under clause (1) of Article 243-Q of the Constitution in accordance with Part IX-A thereof shall, -
(a) for every transitional area, be known as the Nagar Panchayat;
(b) for every smaller urban area be known as the Municipal Council.]
(2) Every Nagar Panchayat or Municipal Council constituted under subsection (1), shall be a body corporate.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), -
(a) every Municipal Board existing immediately before the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Urban
Local Self Government Laws (Amendment) Act, 1994, shall [from such commencement and until the
first constitution of the Municipal Council under this Act as amended by the said Act be deemed to be a
Municipal Council under the Act;]
(b) every notified area committee constituted under Section 338 or Town Area Committee constituted
under the Uttar Pradesh Town Areas Act, 1914, as it stood immediately before the commencement of
the Act referred to in clause (a), shall [from such commencement and until the first constitution of the
Nagar Panchayat under this Act, as amended by the Act referred to in clause (a)] be deemed to be a
Nagar Panchayat under this Act.
[3B. Constitution and composition of Ward Committee. - (1) Each Ward Committee constituted under
clause (1) of Article 243-S of the Constitution within the territorial area of a Municipal Council having a
population of three lakhs or more, shall consist of one ward.
(2) The territorial area of a Ward Committee shall consist of the territorial area of the concerned ward.
(3) Each Ward Committee shall consist of -
(a) the member of the Municipal Council representing the ward;
(b) such other members not exceeding ten as may be nominated by the Municipal Council, from amongst
persons registered as electors within the territorial area of the concerned Ward Committee, office
bearers of citizens welfare societies and representatives of non-government organizations, who have
special knowledge or experience of municipal administration :
Provided that not less than one third number of total number of members shall be reserved for women and if
in determining such number there comes a remainder, the quotient shall be increased by one.
(4) The member representing that ward in the Municipal Council shall be the Chairperson of that Committee.
(5) A Group 'C' employee of the Municipal Council authorised by the Executive Officer shall be the Secretary
of the Ward Committee.
(6) The duration of the office of the Chairperson shall be co-terminous with the term of the Ward Committee.
(7) The Chairperson shall vacate office as soon as he ceases to be a member of the Municipal Council.
(8) In the event of the office of the Chairperson falling vacant, due to resignation or otherwise, before the
expiry of his term, the Ward Committee, shall, as soon as may be, on occurrence of the vacancy, elect a new
Chairperson from amongst the members nominated under clause (b) of sub-section (3) :
Provided that the Chairperson so elected shall hold office only for the remainder of the period for which the
person in whose place he is elected would have held it if such vacancy had not occurred.
(9) The duration of Ward Committee shall be co-terminous with the term of the Municipal Council.
(10) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Ward Committee shall exercise such powers and perform such
functions as may be prescribed by rules.]
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4. Preliminary procedure to issue notification. - [(1) Before the issue of a notification] [referred to in
Section 3], the [Governor] shall publish in the Official Gazette [and in a paper approved by it for purposes of
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publication of public notices published in the district or if there is no such paper in the district in the division