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section 8

Election of President and Vice-President

The Odisha Zilla Parishad Act, 1991
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Chapter II CONSTITUTION OF ZILLA PARISHAD AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

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  1. (1) The members of the Par ishad specified in clause
    • (a) of sub-secfion
    • (l) of Section 6 shall,-
    • (a) at its first meeting, which [shall be convened within twenty-two days, but not before the expiry of seven days from the date of ] publication of the names under sub-section
  2. (2) of section 6, elect in the prescribed manner a Chairperson from among them;
    • (b) at a subsequeut meeting, which shall be specially convene3 for the purpose within thirty days kom rhe date of the ,elecriqn of the Chairperson elect the Vic~Chairperson of the parishad from among them : Provided that where the office of the Chairperson is not reserved undar this Act for women or where a Chairperson elected under this Act is not a woman, the oEce . oF,the Vice-,Chairperson of the Parishad shall , be reserved ' for Women.
  3. (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sub-section (I),-
    • (a) the offices of the Chairpersons in the parishads shall be reserved for the Scheduled castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the number of offices so reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall bear as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of such offices as the population of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively in the State bears to the total population of the State : Provided that in the Scheduled Areas, offices of Presidents of all the Parishads shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes.
    • (b) as nearly as may be, but not less than, one-third of the total number of offices of Presidents reserved under clause
    • (a) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes ;
    • (c) as nearly as may be, twenty-seven per centum of the offices of presidents in Parishads shall also be reserved in favour of backward class of citizens as referred to in clause
  4. (6) of article 243-D of the Constitution ;
    • (d) as nearly as may be, one-third of the total number of offices of Presidents reserved under clause
    • (c) shall be reserved for women belonging to the backward class of citizens ; and
    • (e) as nearly as may be, but not less than, one-third (including the number of offices reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the backward class of citizens) of the total number of offices of Presidents in Parishads shall be reserved for women.
  5. (3) Reservation of Offices of President under sub-section
  6. (2) for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes [backward class of citizens and Women] shall be made by Government by rotation among different Parishads and the reservation so made shall be published in the Gazette.
  7. (4) The procedure provided in subsection (3-A) of Section 6 relating to reservation of seats in the Parishads for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes backward class of citizens and Women] shall, as far as may be, be applicable for the purposes of reservation of offices of Presidents to be made by the Government under subsection (3).
  8. (5) The reservation of offices of presidents under clauses
    • (a) and
    • (b) of subsection
  9. (2) shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period specified in article 334 of the Constitution.

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