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Appointment of 52 53Special officer or administrative committee or on failure to constitute a Panchayat. - (1) A Panchayat at nay level shall be deemed to be constituted only when the majority of the members are duty elected. 53 [(2) Where the term of a panchayat has expired and a new panchayat has not been constituted or where panchayat has been dissolved under section 193, the Government may, by notification in the Gazette appoint a Special Officer or an Administrative Committee consisting of not less than three officers of the Government as members for the administration of the panchayat.] (3) 54 55 56 57[****] Administrative Committee or the special officer shall hold office for such period not exceeding six months as the Government may specify in the notification under sub-section (2). 55[3 (a) x x] 56[(4) Where a special officer has been appointed under sub-section (2), all powers functions and duties of the Panchayat concerned, the President, and the various committees of the panchayat, shall be exercised and performed by the special officer and where an Administrative Committee has been appointed, the powers, functions and duties of the panchayat shall be exercise and performed by such committee and the powers, duties and functions of the President and the Vice President shall be exercised and performed by the member of the committee authorised by the Government. Provided that, the Special Officer or the Administrative Committee appointed shall exercise the powers and perform the functions subject to the general or specific directions issued by the Government.] (5) The administrative committee or special officers shall be deemed to be a duly constituted panchayat for the purposes of this Act; [provided that the term of office of the special officer or of the administrative committee shall, not withstanding that the term as specified in the notification under sub-section (2) has not expired, be deemed to have expired with effect from the date of reconstitutions of the panchayat.] 52 Inserted by Act 13 of 1999. 53 Inserted by Act 13 of 13 1999. 54 Omitted by Act 13 of 1999. 55 Omitted by Act 13 56 Inserted by Act 13 of 1999. 57 Inserted by Act 13 of 1999. CHAPTER XIV PROVISION RELATING TO MEMBERS AND PRESIDENT OF PANCHAYATS 58[152, Oath or affirmation by members. - (1) After every General election, the Government shall, for convening the first meeting of the panchayat, nominate a person elected as a member of the panchayat and he shall, before convening such meeting, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the forms set out for the purpose in the second schedule before the Government officer nominated by the Government for the purpose: Provided that, as far as possible, the member nominated by the Government shall be the eldest among the members elected to that panchayat. (2) All other members shall, before assuming office make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the form set out for the purpose in the second schedule before the member of the panchayat who has been nominated under sub-section (1) on a date specified by the Government and before the date fixed by the State Election Commission for the election of the President under sub-section (5) of section (153] (3) A member who could not take an oath or affirmation under sub-election (2) or a member elected in a bye-election may take such oath before the president. (4) No elected member who has not taken an oath or affirmation under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) shall vote or take part in the proceedings of any meeting of the Panchayat in which he is a member nor shall he be included as a member of any committee constituted by that Panchayat. (5) Government may declare the office of the member as vacated on his own motion, when such a member has not entered upon his office without sufficient cause by taking, oath or affirmation within a maximum period of thirty days from the date he was declared as elected.