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Appearance of agents.-- (1) A woman or any other person specially permitted by a Gram Panchayat, being a party to any judicial proceedings before it may appear through an agent authorised in this behalf. (2) For the purposes of this section ‘agent’ shall not include any legal practitioner or any person employed as a clerk to any legal practitioner or any petition writer or tout declared as such under section 36 of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879. 70 THE PUNJAB PANCHAYAT! RAJ ACT, 1994