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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.
(2)
It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 16th August, 2024.
Short title and
commencement.
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:-
“(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.”.
Amendment of
section 6 of
Haryana Act 16 of
1994.
3.
In section 11 of the principal Act,-
(i)
after sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-
“(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:
Provided further that where the number of seats so reserved for Backward
Classes ‘B’ under this sub-section added to the number of seats reserved for the
Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes ‘A’ exceeds fifty per centum of the total
number of seats in that Corporation, then the number of seats reserved for
Backward Classes ‘B’ shall be restricted to such largest number that shall lead to
the total of the seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes ‘A’ and
Backward Classes ‘B’ not exceeding fifty per centum of the total seats in that
Corporation.
Explanation.-(1) For the purposes of reservation of Backward Classes ‘B’ under
this sub-section, the population of the Municipal Corporation
area and the population of Backward Classes ‘B’ in that
Municipal Corporation shall be such as drawn from the Family
Information Data Repository established under the provisions of
the Haryana Parivar Pehchan Act, 2021 (20 of 2021) on such
date, as may be notified by the Government.
Amendment of
section 11 of
Haryana Act 16 of
1994.
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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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