Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Save in so far as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette otherwise direct,— (a) no election shall be held during the period of emergency ; (b) any thing done or any action taken before the com- mencement of this Act in connection with any general election or bye-election which has not been completed at such commencement shall stand cancelled and shall be deemed never to have been done or taken; (c) any order of supersession of any local authority made in pursuance of any law and in force at the com- mencement of the period of emergency, or coming into force during such period, shall continue in force until the local authority is reconstituted according to law ; (d) the term of office of a member of a local authority holding office at or after the commencement of the period of emergency shall extend up to the date of the first meeting, at which a quorum is present, of the newly formed body after such local authority is reconstituted according to law.