Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted by Act 12 of 1994. (a) five per cent for Scheduled Castes; (b) two per cent for Backward Classes; and (c) five per cent for women including women belonging to the Scheduled Castes.]1 Section 7 2[7. Duration of Municipal Corporation.- (1) Every Municipal Corporation, save as otherwise provided in this Act, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer. Explanation. - In this section "first meeting" shall mean the meeting of the newly constituted Corporation held for the election of its Mayor and Deputy Mayor un- der section 38 of this Act. (2) All Corporations existing immediately before the commencement of the Constitution (Seventy-Fourth) Amendment Act, 1992, shall continue till the ex- piration of their duration unless sooner dissolved by a resolution pased to that effect by the State Legislative. (3) An election to constitute a Corporation shall be completed- (a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); (b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its disso- lution; Provided that when the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Cor- poration would have continued is less than six months, it shall not be nec- essary to hold any election under clause (b) for constituting the Corporation for such period. (4) The first election to a Corporation constituted after the commencement of the Punjab Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1994 shall be held within a pe- riod of six months of its being notified as a Corporation. (5) A Corporation constituted upon the dissolution of a Corporation before the expiration of its duration, shall continue only for the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Corporation would have continued under sub- section (1) had it not been so dissolved. Section 7-A 7-A. Power of Government to direct holding of general elections - (1) Sub- ject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, direct that a general election or an election to fill a casual vacancy of the Councillors of the Corporation, shall be held by such date as may be specified in the notification and different dates may be specified for elections for different Corporations or group or groups of Corpora- tions. (2) As soon as a notification is issued under sub-section (1), the State Election Commission shall take necessary steps for holding such general election. 24 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, Section 7