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(1) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Reservation Tribes in every Municipality and the number of seats so reserved shall of Seats. bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in that Municipality as the population of the Scheduled Castes and in the Municipal area or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Municipal area bears to the total population of that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in the Municipality having Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes population. (2) Not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved under clause (1) shall be reserved for women for belonging to the Scheduled Castes or as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes. '1 (3) Not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to Scheduled Castes and SheduledTribes) of the total number of seats to be filled up by direct election in every municipality shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a municipalilty.] I. Subsrir~rtc,cl hi' Tlir TI-ipurrr Mlrrric-ipnl (A~~ret~rl~rierztl Acr. 2000. lt.e.j. 6.10.2000. (4) Seats shall be reserved in the office of the Chairpersons of the Municipalities for the Scheduled Castes and Sheduled Tribes and number of offices so reserved in the Municipalities shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of such offices as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipalities or of the Sheduled Tribes in the Municipalities bears to the total population of the Municipalities. '[Provided that in the event of non-availability of any elected member belonging to Scheduled Caste or as the case may be, Scheduled Tribe, the reservation rotation for the office of the Chairperson shall skip to next rotation.] ( 5 ) Not less than one-third of the total number of offices of Chairperson of Municipali ty, including the number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the ScheduledTribes, shall be reserved for women in such manner as may be prescribed. '[ (6) The number of offices reserved under sub-section (4) and (5) may be allotted, as far as may be possible, by rotation to didfferent municipalities in such manner as may be prescribed.] (7) The reservation of seats under clauses (1) and (2) the reservation of offices of Chairperson (other than the reservation for women) under clause (4) shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period specified in Article 334. Duration of 19. ( 1 ) Every Municipality, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for Municipali- five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer and the ties etc. expiration of the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the Municipality. (2) No amendment of any law for the time being in force shall have the effect of causing dissolution of a Municipality at any level, which is functioning immediately before such amemdment, till the expiration of its duration specified in clause ( 1). (3) An election to constitute a Municipality shall be completed,- (a) before the expiry of its duration specified in clause (1) ; (b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution ; Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Municipality would have continued is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election under this clause for constituting the Municipality for such period. (4) A Municipality constituted upon the dissolution of a Municipality before the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the remainder of the period for which dissolved Municipality would have continued under clause (1) had it not been so dissolved.