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Term of Office of members of Grama Panchayat– 4[(1) Any person elected as a Sarpanch or Naib-Sarpanch or any other member of a Grama Panchayat shall be deemed to have entered Office as such Sarpanch or Naib-Sarpanch or such other member, as the case may be, on the date of the first meeting of the Grama Panchayat as referred to in Sub-Section (1) of Section 14 which shall be held within a period not exceeding thirty days from the date of 4[first Publication of names of members] under Sec- tion 15 and the term of Office of all such persons shall expire with the term of the Grama Panchayat. 5[(2) Every Grama Panchayat, unless sooner dissolved or superseded, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting referred to in Sub-Section (1) of Section 14 and no longer : Provided that a Grama Panchayat constituted on the dissolution or supersession of a Grama Panchayat before the expiration of its term shall continue only for the remainder of the period for which the dissolved, or, as the case may be, superseded Grama Panchayat would have continued under this Sub-Section had it not been so dissolved or, as the case may be superseded. (3) The term of Office of a Sarpanch or any other member elected to fill up a Casual Vacancy shall expire with the expiry of the term of the Grama Panchayat as specified in Sub-Section (2).]