Scheduled Tribes.

(1) Within fifteen days of the declaration of the division of an Anchal into areas of representation, the Collector shall call upon each Grama Panchayat and each Municipality or Notified Area Council within the Anchal to duly elect from amongst the persons residing within their respective jurisdictions, a representative to the Anchal Sabha and such Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council shall thereupon elect a representative in the prescribed manner: Provided that nothing herein contained shall debar a member or councillor, as the case may be, of such Local authority from being so elected to the Anchal Sabha. (2) For an area of representation for which there is no Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council, there shall be elected in the prescribed manner a representative from amongst the persons ordinarily residing in the said area, to the Anchal Sabha.