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The Andhra Pradesh Abolition of Posts of Part-time Village Officers Act, 1985

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The Andhra Pradesh Abolition of Posts of Part-time Village Officers Act, 1985 formally abolished traditional part-time village administrative positions such as headmen, munsiffs, and karnams across the state. The law applied to all part-time village officers, terminating their roles to modernize local administration by appointing full-time Village Assistants instead. It ensured financial compensation for displaced officers while prescribing penalties for failing to hand over official records and properties. By eliminating hereditary and informal rural posts, this legislation mattered significantly because it established a professional, accountable, and centralized civil service structure at the village level.

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  1. 1. Short title and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Abolition of the posts of part-time Village Officers and persons holding such posts to cease to hold office
  4. 4. Appointment of Village Assistants
  5. 5. Amount to be paid on abolition of posts of part-time Village Officers
  6. 6. Revision
  7. 7. Act to override other laws
  8. 8. Construction of reference to Village Officers
  9. 9. Power to remove difficulties
  10. 10. Certain pending proceedings to abate
  11. 11. Power to make rules
  12. 12. Penalty for not handing over of records and other properties of village administration
  13. 13. Interim arrangements
  14. 14. Bar of jurisdiction to civil courts
  15. 15. Repeal of Ordinance 21 of 1994