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Bar to hold more than one office.-(l) A person who is elected to more than one office of Panchayats, may by notice in writing signed .by him and delivered to the prescribed authority within 10 days from the date on which he is elected, or the later dates, .jf he Is 'eJected on different dates, intimate in which of the Panchayats he wished to serve as an office bearer and thereupon his seat In other Panchayats In which he does not wish to serve shall become vacant. (2) In default of such Intimation within the aforesaid period he shall be deemed to have opted for only one of the offices In the follOwing order of preference:- (a) a member of Zila Panchayat. (b) a memb<;r of Janpad Panchayat. (c) a Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat. Jd) .a PanGh of Gram Panchayat: ProVided that if such a person has attended a meeting of a Panchayat before delivering the notice he shall be deemed to have opted for the office in the said Panchayat. Rule 3(a) of the M.P./C.G. Panchayats (ApI'''''] "lid 1(evision) Rules, 1995, the Collector has full jurisdiction to entertain an appeal against the order passed by the S.D.b. and the Collector has exercised that jurisdiction, but has registered the case under the head of revision and by that action only it can not be said that the order passed by the Collector would be thrown away holding it to be without jurisdiction because nojurisdictional error has been committed except the nomenclature which has been quoted as revision in place of appeal. ManJeet Ram Kewat v. State of C.G., 2006(2) CGW 396 = 2006(4) MPHT (CG) 76.