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122                  THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                           (Part IX.—The Panchayats)

       243E. Duration of Panchayats, etc.—(1) Every Panchayat, unless
sooner dissolved under any law for the time being in force, shall continue for
five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer.
        (2) No amendment of any law for the time being in force shall have the
effect of causing dissolution of a Panchayat at any level, which is functioning
immediately before such amendment, till the expiration of its duration specified
in clause (1).
        (3) An election to constitute a Panchayat shall be completed—
           (a) before the expiry of its duration specified in clause (1);
           (b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its
       dissolution:
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        Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved
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Panchayat would have continued is less than six months, it shall not be
necessary to hold any election under this clause for constituting the Panchayat
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       (4) A Panchayat constituted upon the dissolution of a Panchayat before
the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the remainder of the period
for which the dissolved Panchayat would have continued under clause (1) had it
not been so dissolved.
       243F. Disqualifications for membership.— (1) A person shall be
disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of a Panchayat—
           (a) if he is so disqualified by or under any law for the time being in
       force for the purposes of elections to the Legislature of the State
       concerned:
           Provided that no person shall be disqualified on the ground that he is
       less than twenty-five years of age, if he has attained the age of twenty-
       one years;
           (b) if he is so disqualified by or under any law made by the
       Legislature of the State.
       (2) If any question arises as to whether a member of a Panchayat has
become subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in clause (1), the
question shall be referred for the decision of such authority and in such manner
as the Legislature of a State may, by law, provide.

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