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Clauses (vii) and (viii) were substituted for Clause (vii) by Guj. 19 of 2017, s. 4. 58 Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. [1993 : Guj. 18 (d) Where a member commits default in giving intimation under clause (b), within the period prescribed therein, the panchayat shall determine the two committees in which such member shall retain his seat and thereupon the seat in the committees other than the committees so determined shall become vacant. (8) A member once elected to a committee shall be eligible for re-election. 1[(9) (i) The term of the committees constituted under sub-section (1) shall be two and a half years: Provided that the term of the existing Social Justice Committee and Education Committee which have completed a term of two and a half years on the commencement of the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Act, 2015 shall be co-extensive with the duration of the Panchayat: Provided further that the term of the Committees other than the Social Justice Committee and the Education Comittee which have not completed a term of two years on the date of the commencement of the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Act, 2015 shall be two and a half years or till the remainder period of duration of the Panchayat, whichever is earlier. (ii) The term of the committee or committees constituted under sub-section (2) shall not exceed one year.] (10) A member or Chairman may resign from membership or Chairman ship of a committee by tendering this resignation to the panchayat. (11) Any vacancy of an elected member occurring in the constitution of a committee shall be filled in by election. (12) The Education Committee shall, in the discharge of its functions exercise all the powers and discharge all the duties of the panchayat: Provided that where the Education Committee, exercises the powers and discharges the duties and functions of the District School Board vested in the District Panchayat under the Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947, the Committee shall notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act, exercise those powers and discharge those duties subject to the control of the District Panchayat. (13) The committees, other than the Education Committee constituted under this section shall, in the performance of their functions, exercise such powers and discharge such duties of the district panchayat as may be assigned to them by the Panchayat. (14) A district Panchayat may at any time, withdraw from- (a) any committee other than the Social Committee and the Education Committee, any of the powers, functions and duties assigned to it, (b) the Education Committee, any of the powers, functions and duties, not falling in Part-II of Schedule-Ill, and assign the same to any other committee other than the Social Justice Committee. (15) Such of the powers, functions and duties of the panchayat as are not assigned to any committee, shall be exercised and performed by the district panchayat. (16) A Committee shall conform to any instructions that may from time to time, be given to it by the panchayat. The panchayat may at any time call for any extract from any proceedings of any committee and for any return, statement, account or report in connection with any matter with which any committee has been authorised or directed to deal. Every such requisition, shall without unreasonable delay, be complied with by the committee so called upon.