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GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

[R. Dis. No. 197/2009.

2025

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TAMIL NADU

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 718]

CHENNAI, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11,  2025

Aippasi 25, Visuvaavasu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2056

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

[251]

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

received the assent of the Governor on the 10th November 2025 and

is hereby published for general information:—

ACT No. 53 OF 2025.

An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as

follows: —

1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Panchayats

(Fourth Amendment) Act, 2025.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 6th day

of July 2025.

Short title and

commencement.

Tamil Nadu Act 21

of 1994.

2. In section 261-A of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994

(hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the expression “upto

the 5th day of July 2025”, the expression “upto the 5th day of January

2026” shall be substituted.        

Amendment of

section 261-A.

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TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY

Validation.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, the

Special Officers appointed by the Government to exercise the powers

and discharge the functions of the village panchayats, panchayat

union councils or the district panchayats other than the panchayats in

the districts of Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Kallakurichi,

Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi with effect on and

from the 6th day of July 2025, shall be deemed to have been appointed

as such Special Officers under section 261-A of the principal Act, as

amended by this Act, and anything done or any action taken by the

said Special Officers during the period commencing on and from the

6th day of July 2025 and ending with the date of publication of this

Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, shall be deemed to have

been validly done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by

this Act.

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ON  BEHALF  OF  THE  GOVERNMENT  OF  TAMIL  NADU

(By order of the Governor)

S. GEORGE ALEXANDER,

Secretary to Government,

Law Department.