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130                   THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                          (Part IXA.—The Municipalities)

       (3) Not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved for
women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) of the
total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Municipality shall
be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different
constituencies in a Municipality.
       (4) The offices of Chairpersons in the Municipalities shall be reserved
for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and women in such manner as
the Legislature of a State may, by law, provide.
       (5) The reservation of seats under clauses (1) and (2) and the reservation of
offices of Chairpersons (other than the reservation for women) under clause (4)
shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period specified in article 334.
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       (6) Nothing in this Part shall prevent the Legislature of a State from
making any provision for reservation of seats in any Municipality or offices of
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Chairpersons in the Municipalities in favour of backward class of citizens.
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       243U. Duration of Municipalities, etc.—(1) Every Municipality, unless
sooner dissolved under any law for the time being in force, shall continue for
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five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer:
       Provided that a Municipality shall be given a reasonable opportunity of
being heard before its dissolution.
       (2) No amendment of any law for the time being in force shall have the
effect of causing dissolution of a Municipality 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 Municipality 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:
       Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved
Municipality would have continued is less than six months, it shall not be
necessary to hold any election under this clause for constituting the
Municipality for such period.
       (4) A Municipality constituted upon the dissolution of a Municipality
before the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the remainder of the
period for which the dissolved Municipality would have continued under
clause (1) had it not been so dissolved.

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