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Subs by section 6 of UK Act no 8 of 2002. [The Uttar Pradesh [Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats]1 Adhiniyam, 1961] [Section 18A-18B] (2) The members of the Zila Panchaya mentioined in clauses (a), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1) shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings and vote at the meetings of the Zila Panchayat except in matters of election of and on a motion of no-confidence against, the Adhyaksha or the Upadhyaksha. (3) Each territorial constituency referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be represented by one member. [(4) The territorial constituencies of a Kshettra Panchayat may be delimitated in the prescribed manner and, if necessary, rules in this regard may be made with retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 1994.]2 [(5) Any vacancy in an category of member a referred to in clauses (a) to (d) of sub-section (1) of section 18 shall be no bar to the constitution or reconstitution of a Kshettra Panchayat. (6) The consititution of a Zila Panchayat shall be notified in the Gazette.]4 Reservation of seats 18-A (1) In every Zila Panchayat, seats shall be reserved for the person belonging to the Schedulted Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes and the number of seats so reserved shall, as nearly as may be, bear the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Zila 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 that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different territorial constituencies in a Zila Panchayat in such order as may be prescribed : Provided that the reservation for the Backward Classses shall not exceed 262 [fourteen]5 percent of the total number of seats in the Zila Panchayat : [Provided further that if the figures of population of the Backward Classes are not available, their population may be determined by carrying out a survey in the prescribed manner.]3 (2) [Not less than one half] 6of the seats reserved under sub-section (1) shall be reserved for the women belonging to the Schedulted Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes as the case may be. (3) [Not less than one-half]6 of the total number of seats, including the number of seats reserved under sub-section (2), shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different territorial constituencies in a Zila Panchayat in such order as may be prescribed. (4) The reservation of seats for the Schedulted Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall cases to have effect on the expiration of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution. Explanation— It is clarified that nothing in this section shall prevent the persons belonging to the Schedulted Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Backward Classes and the women from contesting election to unreserved seats.