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Establishment of Panchayat Samiti- (1) For every Block there shall be a Panchayat Samiti having jurisdiction save as otherwise provided in this Act, over the entire Block excluding such portions of the Block as are included in or are under the authority of a Municipality or a Cantonment Board constituted under any law for the time being in force. (2) Every Panchayat Samiti shall be a body corporate by the name of its Panchayat Samiti and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and subject to such restrictions as are imposed by or under this Act or any other enactment, shall be vested with the capacity of suing or being sued in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and transferring property, movable or immovable, whether without or within the limits of the area over which it has authority, or entering into contracts and of doing all things necessary, proper and expedient for the purpose for which it is constituted.