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    "id": 16442,
    "slug": "the-goa-panchayat-raj-election-petition-authority-rules-1997",
    "title": "The Goa Panchayat Raj (Election Petition Authority) Rules, 1997",
    "short_title": "The Goa Panchayat Raj (Election Petition Authority) Rules, 1997",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. 12/DP/PAN/ED/96-97",
    "act_year": 1997,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa Panchayat Raj (Election Petition Authority) Rules, 1997",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Act 14 of 1994);\n(b) \"Administrative Tribunal\" means the Administrative Tribunal constituted under section 3 of the Goa Administrative Tribunal Act, 1965 (Act No.6 of 1965);\n(c) \"Candidate\" means a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate at any Village Panchayat Election, and any such person shall be deemed to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election is prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate;\n(d) \"Costs\" means all costs, charges and expenses of or incidental to a trial of an election petition;\n(e) \"Pleader\" means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in a civil court within the State of Goa;\n(f) \"Words and expression\" which are not defined under these Rules shall have the same meaning as assigned to them under the Act.",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Election Petition Authority.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa103",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. 12/DP/PAN/ED/96-97, dated 20-1-1997",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1997",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Panchayat Raj (Election Petition Authority) Rules, 1997",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}