The Haryana Municipal (Amendment) Act, 2004 Complete Act - Bare Act

An Act further to amend the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:"

This Act may be called the Haryana Municipal (Amendment) Act, 2004.

In section 3A of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 (hereinafter called the principal Act),-

(i) in the first proviso, for sign "." existing at the end, the sign ":" shall be substituted;

(ii) after the existing proviso, the following proviso shall be added, namely:"

"Provided further that"

(i) in case of reconstituting of the municipality on account of the expiry of its duration of five years, such date shall not be earlier than 120 days before the expiry of duration;

(ii) in case of reconstitution of the municipality on account of dissolution of the municipality where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved municipality would have continued is six months or more than six months, such date shall not be inter than two months after the date of dissolution of the municipality;

(iii) in case of filling up of casual vacancy, as specified in section 15, where the remainder of the period for which the casual vacancy to be filled up is six months or more than six months, such date shall not be later than two months after the date of the occurrence of such vacancy;

(iv) such election shall be conducted in the manner as may be prescribed,".

For sub-section (2) of section 24 of the principal Act, the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:"

"(2) Every election of a member shall be notified in the Official Gazette by the State Election Commission not earlier than one week before the expiry of the duration of the existing municipality. Every election of a President shall be notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette within thirty days from the date of declaration of the result of such election.

Provided that notification regarding bye-election results shall be published in the Official Gazette by the State Election Commission forthwith".