Section 117 — U. P. ACT No . XXXIII of 1961 ]

Section 117 For the term ―district board‖ wherever it occurs in the Act substitute the term 1[Zila Panchayat] . III — Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 Insert the following as a new clause (3-A) : ―(3-A) ‗Circle' means any area for which a Gaon Sabha has been established under the United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act, 1947.‖ For the words ―Consolidated Gaon Samaj Fund‖ wherever they occur substitutes the words ―Consolidated Gaon Fund‖. Substitute the following for the existing clause : ―(9) 1 [Gram Fund] , 1 [Gram Panchayat] , 1 [Gram Sabha] and ‗Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti (Land Management Committee)' shall have the meanings assigned to them in the United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act, 1947).‖ Delete . Delete . Re -number existing section 117 as sub-section (1) and add to it the following as sub-sections (2), (3), (4) and (5) : ―(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force the State Government may by notification in the official Gazette declare that as from the date to be specified all or any of the things specified in clauses (i) to (vii) of the said sub -section which had in respect of any part of the village included within the limits of a city, municipality, notified area, town area or cantonment under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Nagar Mahapalika Adhiniyam, 1959, United Provinces Municipalities Act, 1916, U. P. Town Areas Act, 1914, or the Cantonments Act, 1924, as the case may be, after July 7, 1949 vested in the State under this Act shall vest in the Gaon Sabha established for the remaining part of such village.‖ (3) All gaon Samajs constituted under this Act before its amendment by the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayat and Zila Panchayat Adhiniyam, 1961, shall cease to exist and any reference in any other law for the time being in force or any notification, rule or order issued under this Act or such law or in any contract or other documents to any Gaon Samaj shall, in so far as may be, be deemed to be a reference to the Gram Sabha established for the area of such Gaon Samaj — (4) All property funds and rights whatsoever vesting in or belonging to and all liabilities imposed upon any Gaon Samaj under