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. After section 119 so inserted, the following section shall be inserted, namely r-

15 . After section 119 so inserted, the following section shall be inserted, namely r- Insertion of new section 119B . "Bar to 1193 . Save as otherwise provided, no suit or other proceeding shall suits and lie in any court . tribunal or before any OTher authority to ch illenge, other vary or to set-aside any order passed by ihe Prescribed Authority procee -under section 119 or iue Appellate Autho . ity under section 119A dings under this Chapter" . Amendment 16 . For section 127 of ~he principal Act , the following section shall be substituof section ted, namely127 . "127 . The District Planning Committee as pi ovided under article 243 ZD of the Constitution read with Section 184 of the Sikkim Municipalities Act, 1995 shall be ihe District Planning Committee for the purposes of this Act . " Amendment 17. In section 130 of the principal Act,of section 130 (i) in sub-section (2), after clause (ix), the following clause shall be inserted , namely: " "(ixa) manner of election of the Adhakshya and Up-Adhakshya of Zilla Panchayat j" (ii) after sub-section (2) , the follwing sub-section shall be inserted, namely> "(3\ Every rule made under this section shall immediately after it is made. be laid before the State Legislature if it is in session. a rid if it is not in session . in the session immediately following for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiration of the session in which it is so laid. or the sessions immediately following. the House agrees in making any modification in the rules or in the annulment of the rules , the rules shall there -after have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled, as tile case may be, so. however that any such modificatl-n or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule." By Order of the Governor. B. R. PRADHAN Secretary to the Government of Sikkim Law Department . F . No. 16 (82)LD/79-95 . PRINTED AT THE SIKKIM GOVERNMENT PRESS, GANGTOK. I j .• " No . 5jLD/97 GOVERNMENT OF SiKKIM LAW DEPART1VIENT GANGTOK . Dated: the 13th May, 1997. NOTIFICATION The following Act of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly havidg received the assent of the Governor on 9th day of May, 19n is hereby published for general information i - THE SIKKIM PANCHAYAT (AMEND~"'IENT) ACT, 1997 (ACT NO. 5 OF 1997) AN ACT further to amend the Sikkim Panchayat Act . 1993. B.; it enacted by the Legislature of Sikkim in the Forty-Eighth Year of the Republicof India as follows. - Short title and 1 . commencement . This Act may be called the Sikkim Panchayat (Amendment) Act , )997 . It shall come into force at once . Substitution of 2 . section 115 . For section 115 of the Sikkim Panchayat Act , 1993 No.6 of r 993 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted , namely:- "Consequences of sunersession or . dissolution.

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