Haryana Municipal Corporation Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) Order, 1996

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    "title": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) Order, 1996",
    "short_title": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) Order, 1996",
    "act_number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No.",
    "act_year": 1996,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) Order, 1996",
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    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent, application and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions and Interpretation.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 (Haryana Act No. 16 of 1994) and the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 (Haryana Act No. 24 of 1973).\n(b) \"Election Expenditure\" means any expenditure incurred or authorised by a candidate or his election agent in connection with the election between the dates on which he has been nominated and the date of declaration of results thereof, both days inclusive;\n(c) \"Municipality\" means an Institution of Self Government constituted under section 2A of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 which may be a Municipal Committee or Municipal Council or Municipal Corporation;\n(d) \"Rule\" means the Haryana Municipal Corporation (Elections) Rules, 1994 and the Haryana Municipal (Election) Rules, 1978;\n(e) \"Section\" means the Section of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 and Haryana Municipal Act, 1973;\n(f) \"State Election Commission\" means the State Election Commission, Haryana constituted under Article 243ZA of the Constitution read with Section 9 and Section 3A of the Acts;\n(g) \"Sub-paragraph\" means a sub-paragraph of the paragraph in which the word occurs; and",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Notification by State Election Commission to prescribe the election Expenditure limit.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Maintenance of election expenditure account.",
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            "content": "5.\n(1) A register in a standard proforma as shown in annexure I to this order shall be issued to each candidate by the Returning Officer immediately after his nomination for keeping the day to day record of expenditure.\n(2) The register shall be duly authenticated by the Returning Officer at the time to issue.\n(3) All day to day accounts shall be faithfully recorded in this register and in no other document, by the candidate or his agent authorised by him in this behalf.\n(4) All documents such as vouchers, receipts, acknowledgements in support of the expenditures incurred shall be obtained from day to day as the expenditure is incurred and maintained in the correct chronological order along with the aforesaid register.\n(5)(a) The day to day account maintained in the aforesaid register together with the supporting documents shall be made available for inspection at any time during the process of election by the Deputy Commissioner, Returning Officer, Election Expenditure Observer appointed by the Commission or any other such authority nominated by the Commission in this behalf.\n(b) Failure to produce this register on demand by the authority mentioned in (a) above will be considered as a major default.\n6.\n(b) The Deputy Commissioner or the officer specified in sub-para (a) above shall, within 2 days from the date on which the account of election expenses have been lodged by a candidate under sub-para (a) above, cause a notice to be affixed to the notice board of his office specifying :-\n(i) the date on which the account has been lodged;\n(ii) the name of the candidate; and\n(iii) the time and place at which such accounts can be inspected.\n(c) Any person shall on payment of a fee of Rs. 5 be entitled to inspect any such account and on payment of such fee as may be fixed by the State Election Commission in this behalf be entitled to obtain attested copies of such account or of any part thereof.\n7.\n(b) Each candidate while lodging the returns of his election expenditure shall also file an affidavit on oath as in Annexure III that the expenditure shown as nil, if any, on items listed in the proforma or left blank therein, has not been incurred by him. The affidavit will also clearly state that all election expenditure on listed items relating thereto has been completely and unexpectionally included in the return and there is nothing that has not been disclosed.\n8.\n9.\n10.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Disqualification for failure to lodge account of election expenses.",
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            "content": "(a) has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner required under this order, and\n(b) has no good reason or justification for the failure, the State Election Commission shall, by order published in the official Gazette, declare him to be disqualified and such person shall be disqualified for a period of three years from the date of the order.\n12.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power of State Election Commission to issue instructions and directions.",
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            "content": "(a) for the clarification of any of the provisions of this order.\n(b) for the removal of any difficulty which may arise in relation to the implementation of any such provision; and\n(c) In relation to any matter with respect to the maintenance and submission of election expenditure return by the contesting candidates, for which this order makes no provision or make insufficient provision, any provisions in the opinion of the State Election Commission necessary for the smooth and orderly conduct of elections.\n14.\n15.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl484",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No. SEC/ME/96/7470 dated 31st May, 1996",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1996",
        "Short Title": "Haryana Municipal Corporation Expenditure (Maintenance and Submission of Accounts) Order, 1996",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}