The Maharashtra Village Panchayats (Temporary Postponement of Elections due to Elections to Lok Sabha) Act, 1980

1. (1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Village Panchayats (Temporary Postponement of Elections due to elections to Lok Sabha) Act, 1980.
2. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 11th day of September 1979.
3. (3) It shall remain in operation upto, and inclusive of, the 31st March 1980, or such earlier date as may be notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette; and shall then expire. Section 7 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904, shall apply upon the expiry of this Act, as if it had been repealed by a Maharashtra Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--

1. (a) "administrator" means an administrator appointed under clause
2. (b) of sub-section

1. (1) of section 160 of the Panchayats Act, and includes any person appointed under clause
   • (b) of sub-section
2. (2) of section 145 or clause
   • (a) of sub-section
3. (1) of section 151 of that Act;
   • (b) "election to a panchayat" means the election of a member of the panchayat, but does not include the election of a Sarpanch or Upa-Sarpanch;
   • (c) "panchayat" means a panchayat established or deemed to have been established under the Panchayats Act;
   • (d) "the Panchayats Act" means the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958.

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 21st March 1980 or such earlier date as may be notified by the State Government under sub-section

1. (3) of section 1 (hereinafter 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, 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