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Election to more than one seat. – (1) If a person is elected to more than one seat in one or more @ [omitted] panchayats, then unless he resigns all but one of the seats by writing under his hand addressed to the election authority within the time specified in sub-section (2), all the seats shall become vacant. (2) Such resignation shall be made --- (a) where the date of declaration of his election to more than one seat is on the same day, fourteen days from that date; and (b) where the dates of declaration of his election to more than one seat are different, fourteen days from the last of such date. * Sections 13 and 14 substituted and section 15 omitted by amendment Act 5 of 1994 with effect from 23-4-1994 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 13, dated 23-4-1994. @ The word "village" in sub-section (1) of section 16 omitted by amendment Act 5 of 1994, with effect from 23-4-1994 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 13, dated 23-4-1994. 494