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For section 12 of the West Bengal Panchayat Elections Act, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted:— "Total number of 12. Subject to the provision of sub-section (2) of section 4 of members in a Gram Panchayat. the West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973, the prescribed authority shall determine the total number of members to be elected to a Gram Panchayat on the following basis, namely:— (i) in the hill areas, one member for seven hundred voters and one additional member for every fraction thereof; (ii) in the case of other areas, one member for every nine hundred voters and one additional member for every fraction thereof".