Terms of office and election of members of Panchayats (See Sections 13, 22, 29)

Schedule IV ("Terms of office and election of members of Panchayats (See Sections 13, 22, 29)") (1) The term of office of the members of every Village Panchayat, Panchayat Union Council and District Panchayat shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, be five years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and no longer. (2) Every Village Panchayat, Panchayat Union Council and District Panchayat shall be reconstituted within a period of six months from the date of its dissolution. (3) Ordinary elections to fill the vacancies in the office of an elected member of the Village Panchayat, Panchayat Union Council or District Panchayat shall be held on such day or days as may be fixed by the Tamil Nadu State Election Commissioner. (4) The term of office of the members elected at an ordinary election shall commence on the date appointed for the first meeting of the Panchayat after such ordinary election. (5) A member elected in a casual vacancy shall hold office only so long as the member in whose place he is elected would have been entitled to hold office if the vacancy had not occurred.