The Maharashtra Village Panchayats (Temporary Further Postponement of Elections due to Elections to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly) Act, 1980

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Panchayats Act or any rules or by-laws made thereunder,—

1. (a) during the period from the date of commencement of this Act upto, and inclusive of, the 31st March 1981, or such earlier date as may be notified by the State Government under sub-section

1. (3) of section 1 (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the said period "), no general election to any panchayat and no by-election to fill any casual vacancy in any panchayat, shall be held ;
   • (b) the term of office (including any extended term of office) of the members (whether elected or appointed) of any panchayat or of the administrator or administrators of any panchayat, who were in office on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act (whether their term has expired before, or will expire on or after the said date at any time during the said period), shall be deemed to have been extended or to be extended, as the case may be ; and every such member or administrator shall continue to hold office during the said period : Provided that, after the expiry of the term of office of the members or the administrators as so extended by this section, they shall continue in office until the first meeting of the reconstituted panchayat, at which a quorum is present.

All members of panchayats and all administrators of panchayats, whose term of office is deemed to have been extended or is extended, as the case may be, under the last preceding section, shall throughout the extended period also (whether before or after the commencement of this Act), be deemed to have been and be competent to exercise all powers and to perform all duties and functions as such members or administrators, as the case may be; and no act done by any such member or administrator during the said period shall be deemed