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(iv) "Urban Local Body" means a Nagar Panchayat or a Municipal Council or a Municipal Corporation, as the case may be. (v) All other words not expressly delined herein shall have lhe same meanings assigned to them in the Central and Arunachal Pradesh Acts. Disqualification 3 on the ground of defection. Disqualfication on the ground of Defection not to apply in case of merger. 2 (1) Subject to the provisions of sections 4, a member of a Urban Local Body belonging to any political party shall be disqualified for being such a member- (a) lf he has voluntarily given up his membership ot such political party : or (b) ll he voles or absEins lrom voting or remains absent lrom any meeting meant lor voting in a Urban Local Body contrary to any direction issued by the political party to which he belongsor any person orauthority authorised by it in this behalt without obtaining the prior permission ol such parly, person or authority and such voting, abstenlion or absence has not been condoned by such political party, person or authority within lifteen days lrom the date of such votirE or such abstention or such absence : Explanation -Fot the purposes ol this sub-section a person elected as a member, shall be deemed to belong to lhe political party, if any, by which he was set up as a candidate lor election as such member ; (2) A person elected as a member to a Urban Local Body, otherwise than as a candidate set up by a political party, shall be disqualified from being a member if he joins any other political party after such election.