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Regd. No. NW/CH-22

Regd. No. CHD/0092/2018-2020

EXTRAORDINARY

Published by Authority

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LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT

Contents

Pages

Part - I

Acts

Nil

Part - II

Ordinances

Nil

Part - III

Delegated Legislation

Notification No. G.S.R. 31/P.A.3/1911/

S.240/Amd.(7)/2020, dated the 10th June,

2020, containing amendment in the

Determination of number of Elected

Members and Reservation of Offices of

Presidents of Municipalities Rules, 1994.

Corrigendum in the Government of Punjab,

Department of Excise and Taxation (Excise

and Taxation-II Branch) Notification No.

S.O. 15/P.A.8/2005/S.8/2020, dated the 15th

June, 2020.

Part - IV

Correction Slips, Republications and

Replacements

Nil

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PART III

GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

(MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS OFFICE)

NOTIFICATION

The 10th June, 2020

No. G.S.R. 31 /P.A.3/1911/S.240/Amd.(7)/2020.- With reference to

Government of Punjab, Department of Local Government, Notification No.

G.S.R. 40/P.A.3/1911/S.240/Amd./2019, dated the 30th October, 2019 and in

exercise of the powers conferred by section 240 of the Punjab Municipal Act,

1911 (Punjab Act No. 3 of 1911), and all other powers enabling him in this

behalf, the Governor of Punjab is pleased to make the following rules further

to amend the Determination of number of Elected Members and Reservation

of Offices of Presidents of Municipalities Rules, 1994, namely:-

RULES

(1)

These rules may be called the Determination of number of

Elected Members and Reservation of Offices of Presidents

of Municipalities (Amendment) Rules, 2020.

(2)

These rules shall come into force on and with effect from the

date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

In the Determination of number of Elected Members and

Reservation of Offices of Presidents of Municipalities Rules, 1994

(herein after referred to as the said rules), in rule 4, for sub-rules

(3) and (4), the following sub-rules shall be substituted, namely:-

"(3) The seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled

Castes under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 8 of the

Act, shall be filled as per the provisions of sub-sections (2)

and (3) of the said section 8, in the general elections.

Explanation.- The conduct of general elections, otherwise, shall

be as per Schedule-II.

(4)

The seats reserved for women under sub-rule (3) shall be

allotted by rotation:

Provided that no rotation shall be done, if delimitation

of wards of a municipality has taken place under clause (ii)

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of rule 4 of the Delimitation of Wards of Municipalities Rules, 1972".

In the said rules, for Schedule-II, the following shall be substituted,

namely:-

"SCHEDULE-II

(See rule 4)

Number of seats

Seats reserved

Seats reserved for

Remarks

determined for the

for women

women (including

Municipality

number of seats

reserved for women,

Minimum

Maximum

Minimum

Maximum

if any, belonging to

the Scheduled Castes)

In every 1st General

For giving effect

Election, every odd

to fifty percent

number ward, as far

reservation to

as practicable, will

women in the

be reserved for

Scheduled Castes

women.

category also, if an

even numbered

ward

already

reserved

for

Scheduled Castes

category is reserved

for

Scheduled

Castes (women), in

that case an odd

numbered ward

next to that even

numbered ward in

general category

will not be reserved

for women. Further,

if an odd numbered

ward reserved for

Scheduled Castes

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category is not

given to Scheduled

Castes women, in

that case an even

numbered ward

next to that odd

numbered ward in

general category

will be reserved for

women.

In every 2nd General For giving effect to

Election, every even

fifty percent

number ward, as far

reservation to

as practicable, will

women in

be reserved for

Scheduled Castes

women.

category also, if an

odd

numbered

ward

already

reserved

for

Scheduled Castes