Effect of alteration of the area of a gram

(5) "Casual Vacancy" means a vacancy occurred otherwise than by efflux of time in the office of an elected Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad; (6) "Constituency" means a constituency as determined for election of members of a Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad under the provisions of this Act; (7) "Collector" means the Collector of the District appointed by the State Government to be in-charge of a Revenue District; (8) "Chairman or Vice-Chairman as the case may be" means the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of a Panchayat Samiti constituted under this Act; (9) "District" means a Revenue District or such local area in the State as the State Government may constitute for the purpose of this Act; (10) "Director of Panchayats" means Director of Panchayats, Government of Tripura and includes any Officer appointed by the State Government to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of Director of Panchayats under this Act. (11) "District Council" means the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council constituted under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India; (12) "District Magistrate" means the District Magistrate for a District and includes the Additional District Magistrate, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency appointed by the State Government to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of District Magistrate under this Act; (13) "District Panchayat Officer" means the District Panchayats Officer or any other Officer as may be appointed by the State Government to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of District Panchayat Officer under this Act; (14) "District Planning Committee" means District Planning Committee established and notified by the State Government under appropriate provision of law; (1) When an area is excluded from a Gram under clause (a) of sub-section (3) of Section 3, such area shall, as from the date of the notification referred to in that sub-section, cease to be subject to the (1) When an area is excluded from a Gram under clause (a) of sub-section (3) of Section 3, such area shall, as from the date of the notification referred to in that sub-section, cease to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Gram Panchayat of that Gram and, unless the State Government otherwise directs, to the rules, orders, directions and notifications in force therein. Provided that in the event of exclusion of any area comprising whole of constituency or constituencies of a Gram such constituency or constituencies shall cease to exist and the member or members elected therefrom shall be deemed to have vacated the office of member including office of the Pradhan or the Upa Pradhan if any held by him. But if the excluded area comprises only a part of the constituency, such constituency shall continue to exist and the member shall continue to hold his office.

(2) When an area is included in a Gram under clause (b) of sub-section (3) of Section 3, the Gram Panchayat for that Gram shall, as from the date of the notification referred to in that sub-section, have jurisdiction over such area and, unless the State Government otherwise directs, all rules, orders, directions and notifications in force in that Gram shall apply to the area as included.

(3) When the area of any Gram is divided under clause (c) of sub-section (3) of Section 3, so as to constitute two or more Grams, the Gram Panchayat of that Gram shall, from the date of the notification referred to in that sub-section, cease to exist and there shall be reconstitution of the Gram Panchayat for the newly constituted Grams in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(4) When the areas of two or more Grams are united under clause (d) of sub-section (3) of Section 3, so as to constitute a single Gram, the Gram Panchayats of the said Grams shall, as from the date of the notification referred to in that sub-section, cease to exist and separate Gram Panchayat shall be constituted for the new Gram in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(5) When under sub-section (3) of Section 3, any area is excluded from, or included in a Gram or a Gram is divided so as to constitute two or more Grams, or two or more Grams are united to constitute a single Gram, the properties, funds and liabilities of the Gram Panchayat or Gram Panchayats affected by such reorganisation shall vest in such Gram Panchayat or Gram Panchayats and in accordance with such allocation, as may be determined by order in writing by the prescribed authority and such determination shall be final.

(6) An order made under sub-section (5) may contain such supplemental, incidental and consequential provision as may be necessary to give effect to such reorganisation.