THE ASSAM PANCHAYAT (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997

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    "title": "THE ASSAM PANCHAYAT (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997",
    "short_title": "The Assam Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997",
    "act_number": "XXIII OF 1997",
    "act_year": 1997,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "1997-09-11",
    "description": "The Assam Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997",
    "preamble": "",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Preamble",
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            "content": "AN ACT further to amend the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994.\nWhereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, in the manner hereinafter appearing;\nIt is hereby enacted in the Fortyeighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:",
            "footnote": "Received the Assent of the Governor on 11th September 1997",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement",
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            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Assam Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997.\n(2) It shall have the like extent as the Principal Act.\n(3) It shall come into force at once.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "2. Amendment of section 65",
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            "content": "In the principal Act, in Section 65, in Sub-Section (1), in clause (i)-\r\n(i) in the second proviso, for the punctuation mark full-stop, occuring at the end of the last line, the punctuation mark colon : shall be substituted.\r\n(ii) after the second proviso, the following new proviso shall be inserted, namely :-\r\n\"Provided further more that the Legislative Assembly Constituency which has urban population, included in a Municipality or a Municipal Corporation, as the case may be or under the authority of Town Committee or Sanitary Board or Cantonment area or any notified area deemed to be urban area under any law for the time being in force, may have less than four territorial constituencies and if the rural population of this Legislative Assembly Constituency is less than thirty thousand, this may form a territoral constituency.\"",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "199723",
        "Act Number": "XXIII OF 1997",
        "Enactment Date": "1997-09-11",
        "Act Year": "1997",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Panchayat (Second Amendment) Act, 1997",
        "Department": "Legislative Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}