Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) A vacancy arising either due to disqualification under section 14 or due to death or resignation or by any reason, such vacancy shall be filled up by nomination in the following manner (a) a vacancy in the Water Users' Association shall be filled, by nomination by the Managing Committee of the Distributary Committee in the prescribed manner; (b) a vacancy in the Distributary Committee shall be filled, by nomination by the Managing Committee of the Project Committee in the prescribed manner; and (c) a vacancy in the Project Committee shall be filled by nomination either by the Apex Committee constituted under section 34 or by the Government, as the case may be, in the prescribed manner. (2) The term of office of a member or a President or a Chairperson of the Farmers' Organisation, nominated under sub-section (1), shall expire at the time at which it would have expired, had he been elected at the ordinary election.