Act Info:
Preamble 1 - KARNATAKA LOCAL AUTHORITIES (PROHIBITION OF DEFECTION ) ACT, 1987
THE KARNATAKA LOCAL AUTHORITIES (PROHIBITION OF DEFECTION ) ACT, 1987
[Act, No. 20 of 1987]1
[2nd May, 1987]
PREAMBLE
An Act to prohibit defection by the Councillors of Municipal Corporations,2[Municipal Councils, Town Panchayats and members of Zilla Panchayats and Taluk Panchayats] from the political parties by which they were set up as candidates and matters connected therewith.
WHEREAS it is expedient to prohibit defection by the Councillors of Municipal Corporations2[Municipal Councils and Town Panchayats and members of Zilla Panchayats and Taluk Panchayats ] from the political parties by which they were set up as candidates and matters connected therewith;
BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :--
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1. First published in the karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the fifth day of May 1987.
2. Substituted by Act 13 of 1995 w.e.f. 3.5.1995.