Amendment of section 10

In section 10 of the principal Act, after sub-section (1), the following sub-sections shall be inserted, namely:- “(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where the electoral roll referred to in sub-section (1) is not the one prepared or revised in the year in which the notice of election to the district council is to be published or where the said electoral roll is the one revised without conducting an intensive revision subsequently, there shall be prepared by the authority prescribed under sub-section (2), an electoral roll for each district council under the superintendence, direction and control of the Director of Elections. Every person who is ordinarily resident within the district and is not less than eighteen years of age on the first day of January of the year in which the electoral roll is so prepared shall, if he is not disqualified for registration in an electoral roll under section 16 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (Central Act 43 of 1950), be eligible to be included in the electoral roll so prepared. (1B) The provisions of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 issued by the Central Government under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (Central Act 43 of 1950) for an intensive revision, except the provisions under Part IV of the said rules, shall, together with all the directions, instructions, forms and guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India in the matter apply mutatis mutandis for the purpose of sub-section (1A).”.”