West Ben. Act XXXIV of 1994. — The West Bengal Municipal Elections Act, 1994

West Ben. Act XXXIV of 1994. GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL LAW DEPARTMENT Legislative West Bengal Act XLVI of 1994 THE WEST BENGAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1994. [Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.] [Assent of the Governor was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 10th October, 1994.] [10th October; 1994.] An Act to amend the West Bengal Municipal Elections Act, 1994. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Municipal Elections Act, 1994, for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:- 1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Municipal Elections (Amendment) Act, 1994. (2) It shall come into force at once. 2. In section 2 of the West Bengal Municipal Elections Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in clause (m), for the word, letter and brackets "clause (a)", the word, letter and brackets "clause (e)" shall be substituted. 3. For section 3 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted:— "Power to delimit municipal areas 3. (1) For the purpose of election of members of a population, dwelling pattern, geographical conditions and municipal areas Municipality, the Commission shall, having regard to into wards. economic considerations of any municipal area, by notification, in the case of a new Municipality, of its own motion, and in the case of a Municipality already in existence at the time the notification is made, after consideration of the views of the Municipality, divide, in such manner as it thinks fit, such municipal area into such number of wards as may be determined by the State Government in this behalf: Short title and commencement. Amendment of sec