Act Number: 26

Act Name: The Manipur Panchayati Raj Act, 1994

Year: 1994

Enactment Date: 1994-04-23

Long Title: An Act to provide for the constitution and organisation of Panchayats as units of local self-Government in the rural areas of Manipur and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Department:

Section 89: Zilla Prishads, power of suspending the executions of order, etc., of Gram Panchayat.
    (1) If in the opinion of the Zilla Parishad the execution of any order or resolution of a Gram Panchayat or any order of any authority or Officer of a Gram Panchayat or the doing anything which is about to be done, or is being done, by or on behalf of a Gram Panchayat is unjust, unlawful, improper or is causing or is likely to cause injury or annoyance to the public or to lead to a breach of the peace, it may by order suspend the execution of or prohibit the doing thereof.
     (2) When the Zilla Parishad makes an order under sub-section (1) it shall forthwith forward to the Government and to the Gram Panchayat affected thereby a copy of the order with a statement of the reasons for making it and it shall be in the discretion of the Government to confirm or resind the order or to direct that it shall continue to be in force with or without modification permanently or for such period as it thinks fit:
     Provided that no order of the Zilla Parishad made under this section shall be confirmed, revised or modified by the Government without giving the Gram Panchayat reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the said order.
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