Karnataka Local Authorities (Prohibition of Defection ) Act, 1987 Preamble 1 - Bare Act

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Preamble 1 - KARNATAKA LOCAL AUTHORITIES (PROHIBITION OF DEFECTION ) ACT, 1987

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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.

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