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The term of office of the President, the office of the Vice-Presdient and the members of an Anchalik President, Panchayat shall be three years from the date of ^denTand ^i e hrst meeting of the Anchalik Panchayat members of under Section 18 : an Anchalik Panchayat. Provided that the term of the office fixed under this section shall be held to include any period which may elapse between the expiration of the said period and the date of the first meeting of the Anchalik Panchayat newly cons tituted. When an Anchalik Panchayat is thus duly constituted and called to meet for the first time the old Anchalik Panchayat shall stand dissolved : Provided further that the term of the office of a member elected or co-opted, the President or the Vice-President to fill up a casual vacancy shall be the remainder of the term of office of the member, the President or the Vice-President whom he replaces” . Amendment