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(1) The District Panchayat shall consist of such number of seats to be filled from such number of wards, as the Administrator may, by order, determine. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), the territorial boundary for each ward shall be notified by the Administrator on the recommendations of the Election Commission. (3) The seats in the District Panchayat shall be filled by persons chosen by direct election from the wards in such manner that the ratio between the population of each constituency and the number of seats allotted to it shall so far as practicable be the same throughout the District Panchayat area. - 18 - EXTRAORDINARY No. : 32 DATED : 17T" AUGUST, 2012. 2 of 1974. (4) The following per9on4 shat) also be re emeci in the lliRnct Pstnr vR1, nsmrly - (a) all the Sarpanchs of the Gram Panchayats; (b) the Member of the Lok Sabha representing the constituency of the Union territory; who shall also have a right to vote in the meetings (other than the meetings held for the election of President and Vice-President) of the District Panchayat. (S) The provisions of sub -sections (S), (6),(7) and (8) ofaxtion 12 shall, so far as may be, apply to the District Panchayat as they apply to a Grain Panchayat subject to the modification that for the words "Gram Panchayat" wherever they occur in those provisions, the words "District Panchayat" shall be substituted. S6. The District Panchayat shall, by the name notified in the Official Gazette under section 54 be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal and subject to such restrictions and conditions imposed by or under this Regulation or any other law for the time being in force, have power to acquire , hold, administer and transfer property, both movable and immovable and enter into any contract and shall by the said name we or be sued.