PART - I
HARYANA GOVERNMENT
LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Notification
The 6th December, 2024
No. Leg. 23/2024.— The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Haryana received the assent of the Governor of Haryana on the 3rd December, 2024 and is hereby published for general information:-
HARYANA ACT NO. 16 OF 2024
THE HARYANA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2024
AN
ACT
further to amend the Haryana MunicipalCorporation Act, 1994.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Seventy-fifth Year of the
Republic of India as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Haryana Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2024. Short title and commencement.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 16th August, 2024.
2. For sub-section (5) of section 6 of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 (hereinafter called the principal Act), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-
Amendment of section 6 of Haryana Act 16 of 1994.
"(5)Wards reserved for the members of Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes 'A' and Backward Classes 'B' shall, as far as practicable, be located in those areas where the proportion of their population to the total population of the Corporation is the largest.".
3. In section 11 of the principal Act,-
(i) after sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-
Amendment of section 11 of Haryana Act 16 of 1994.
"(4A) (a) The seats shall be reserved for the Backward Classes 'B' in every Corporation and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats in that Corporation as one-half of the proportion of Backward Classes 'B' population to the total population in that Corporation and rounded off to the next higher integer in case the decimal value is 0.5 or more; and such seats shall be allotted by draw of lots among three times of the number of seats, proposed for reservation of Backward Classes 'B', after excluding those seats already reserved for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes 'A', drawn from those seats which are having the largest percentage population of Backward Classes 'B' and also by rotation in the subsequent elections:
Provided that the Corporation shall have at least one member belonging to the Backward Classes 'B' if their population is two per centum or more of the total population of the Corporation:
152 HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), DEC. 6, 2024 (AGHN. 15, 1946 SAKA)Explanation.-(2) For the purposes of the second proviso, fifty per centum of the total seats in the Corporation shall be taken as one-half of the total seats of the Corporation rounded up to the next higher integer where the decimal value is 0.5 or more or rounded down to the next lower integer where the decimal value is less than 0.5.
(b) Not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved under this sub-section shall be reserved for women belonging to the Backward Classes 'B' and such seats may be allotted by rotation and by lots amongst the wards reserved under this sub-section.";
(ii) for sub-section (5), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-
"(5) The office of Mayor shall be filled up from amongst the member belonging to the general category, Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes 'A', Backward Classes 'B' and women by rotation and by lots in the manner as may be prescribed.".
Repeal and savings.
4. (1) The Haryana Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2024 (Haryana Ordinance No. 3 of 2024), is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or action taken under the principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.
RITU GARG,
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, HARYANA,
LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
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