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Subs. by section 4 ibid. [The United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act, 1947] [Section 12] (3) (a) A Gram Panchayat shall, unless sooner dissolved under clause (f) of sub- 89 section (1) of section 95, continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer; (b) An election to constitute a Gram Panchayat shall be completed – (i) before the expiry of its duration specified in clause (a); (ii) 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 Gram Panchayat would have continued is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election under this sub-section for constituting the Gram Panchayat; (c) A Gram Panchayat constituted upon the dissolution of a Gram Panchayat before the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Gram Panchayat would have continued under clause (a) had it not been so dissolved; (d) The constitution of a Gram Panchayat shall be notified in such manner as may be prescribed and thereupon the Gram Panchayat shall be deemed to have been duly constituted, any vacancy therein notwithstanding : Provided that the constitution of a Gram Panchayat shall be notified till the Pradhan and at least two-thirds of the members of the Gram Panchayat have been elected. [(3-A) notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, where, due to unavoidable circumstances or in public interest, it is not practicable to hold an election to constitute a Gram Panchayat before the expiry of its duration, the State Government or an officer authorized by it in this behalf may, by order, appoint an administrative Committee consisting of such number of persons qualified to be elected as members of the Gram Panchayat, as it may consider proper or an Administrator and the members of the Administrative Committee or the Administrator shall hold office for such period not exceeding six months as may be specified in the said order and all powers, functions and duties of the Gram Panchayat, its Pradhan and Committees shall vest in and be exercised, performed and discharged by such Administrative Commmittee or the Administrator, as the case may be.]1 (4) The term of a member of Gram Panchayat shall, unless otherwise determined under the provisions of this Act, expire with the term of the Gram Panchayat. (5) (a) In every Gram Panchayat, seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes and the number of seats so reserved shall, as nearly as may be the same proportion to the total number of seats in the Gram Panchayat, as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Panchayat area or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Panchayat area or of the Backward classes in the Panchayat area bears to the total population of such area and such seats may be allotted by otation to different territorial constitutencies in a Gram Panchayat in such order as may be prescribed : Provided that the reservation for the Backward classes shall not exceed [fourteen]2 percent of the total number of seats in the Gram Panchayat :