The Punjab Local Governments (Delimitation) Rules, 2013

Updated: Sunday June 03, 2012/AlAhad Rajab 14, 1433/Ravivara Jyaistha 13, 1934, at 10:01:09 PM

PART II

APPENDIX “B”

Government of the Punjab

Local Government & Community Development Department

Dated Lahore, the 24^th September, 2013

NOTIFICATION

No. SOR(LG)38-11/2013. In Exercise of the powers conferred under section 144 of the Punjab Local Government Act, 2013 (XVIII of 2013), and after previous publication, Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make the following rules;

1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be cited as the Punjab Local Governments (Delimitation) ?Rules, 2013.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions.- (1) In these rules;

(a) “Act” means the Punjab Local Government Act, 2013 (XVIII of 2013);

(b) “Assistant Delimitation Officer” means a person appointed as such under these rules;

(d) “Delimitation Officer” means a person appointed for delimitation of a ward or a Union Council under these rules;

(e) “election” means election to a Local Government;

(f) “form” means a form appended to these rules and includes a translation of the form in Urdu;

(g) “publish” includes exhibition of a document at a place accessible to the public; and

(h) “ward” means an area of a Municipal Committee delimited as a ward under these rules.

3. Delimitation of Wards.- (1) For purposes of election, a Municipal Committee may be divided into such number of wards, as the Government may determine keeping in view the population prescribed for the Municipal Committee under the Act.

(2) A ward shall be a single member ward and the number of wards in a Municipal Committee shall not be less than eleven or more than fifty.

(3) A ward shall, as far as possible, consist of a part of a census block, a census block or adjoining census blocks and the population of wards within a Municipal Committee shall, as far as possible, be uniform.

4. Delimitation of Union Council.- (1) The Government may determine the number of Union Councils for the Metropolitan Corporation, a Municipal Corporation and a District Council.

(2) A Union Council shall be an area consisting of one or more revenue estates or, in the case of an area where revision of settlement under the law has not taken place, one or more census villages or, in case of an urban area, a census block or blocks as delimited for purposes of the last preceding census or a census block and a revenue estate, notified as such by the Government.

(3) As for as possible;

(a) the area of a Union Council shall be a territorial unity;

(b) the boundaries of a Union Council shall not cross the limits of the Metropolitan Corporation, a Municipal Corporation or a District Council; and

(c) the population of the Union Councils within a local government shall be uniform.

5. Appointment of Delimitation Officers, etc.- (1) The Government may, by notification, appoint as many Delimitation Officers and Assistant Delimitation Officers as may be necessary for the delimitation of Union Council and wards or for the revision of such delimitation under these rules.

(2) The Delimitation Officer shall perform such functions as are mentioned in these rules or as the Government may assign.

(3) An Assistant Delimitation Officer shall assist the Delimitation Officer in the performance of his functions.

6. Proposals, objections, suggestions and recommendations.- (1) the Delimitation Officer shall publish, in form-1, on a conspicuous place at his office and the offices of Assistant Delimitation Officers and the local government, a preliminary list of wards or union councils specifying the areas to be included in each ward or a union council alongwith the map, together with a notice inviting objections and suggestions from the public, within a period of seven days of the publication of the preliminary list.

(2) The notice shall specify that objections and suggestions may be submitted in writing, within the period mentioned in sub-rule (1), to Delimitation Officer or Assistant Delimitation Officer.

(3) The Government shall appoint as many Delimitation Authorities as it considers necessary for deciding objections and suggestions with respect to delimitation of Union Councils or wards within the area assigned to a Delimitation Authority.

7. Decision on objection and suggestions.- (1) The Delimitation Officer shall reject the objections or suggestions not received after the specified period.

(2) Subject to sub-rule (1), the Delimitation Officer may hear the parties and conduct such inquiries as he may consider necessary with regard to the objections and suggestions received.

(3) The Delimitation Officer shall, within seven days of the receipt of suggestions or objections, forward to the Delimitation Authority for orders a concise report pertaining to the suggestions and objections received by him.

(4) The Delimitation Authority shall, on receipt of the concise report, decide the case after hearing the parties, within ten days and the decision of the Delimitation Authority shall be final.

(5) The Delimitation Officer shall make such make modifications in the preliminary list of wards or Union Councils published under rule 6 as may be required under the decision of the Delimitation Authority and may make such other modifications in the said list as may be necessary for correcting any error or omission.

(6) The Delimitation Officer shall, after making modifications as aforesaid, shall publish, in Form-II, on a conspicuous place at his office and the offices of Assistant Delimitation Officer and the local government, the final list of Union Councils and wards alongwith a map and shall forward three attested copies of the final list alongwith maps to the Government.

8. Notification of Union Councils and wards.- The Government shall issue the notification of a Union Council or wards on the basis of final list of Union Councils and wards published under rule 7 containing details of areas included in a Union Council or a Ward.

Jawad Rafique Malik – Secretary, LG&CD Department

FORM-I

[See sub-rule (1) of rule 6]

Preliminary list of Union Councils/Wards

Name of Local Government ______________________________________________

Tehsil/District/Division _________________________________________________

Sr. #	Name of Union Council/Ward	Extent of the Union Council/Ward	Population

(Name & signature of the Delimitation Officer)

Place: ______________ Date: ______________

FORM-II

[See sub-rule (6) of rule 7]

Final list of Union Councils/Wards

Name of Local Government ______________________________________________

Tehsil/District/Division _________________________________________________

Sr. #	Name of Union Council/Ward	Extent of the Union Council/Ward	Population

(Name & signature of the Delimitation Officer)

Place: ______________ Date: ______________

Punjab Local Government Act, 2013