Part IX · CHAPTER VI.—SUBORDINATE COURTS

Article 243E Duration of Panchayats, etc.

This article fixes the term of a Panchayat at five years. If dissolved earlier, a Panchayat does not live beyond its original term. An election must be completed before the term expires. If the Panchayat is dissolved, the election must be held within six months. The reconstituted Panchayat serves only the remainder of the original term.

1. (1) Every Panchayat, unless sooner dissolved under any law for the time being in force, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer.
2. (2) No amendment of any law for the time being in force shall have the effect of causing dissolution of a Panchayat at any level, which is functioning immediately before such amendment, till the expiration of its duration specified in clause (1).
3. (3) An election to constitute a Panchayat 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 Panchayat would have continued is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election under this clause for constituting the Panchayat for such period.
4. (4) A Panchayat constituted upon the dissolution of a Panchayat before the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Panchayat would have continued under clause (1) had it not been so dissolved.

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