Section 27C. Disputes as to membership or disqualification

1[ 27-C. (1) A person shall be disqualified for being elected to or holding the office of - (a) a member, Pramukh or 2[x x x] of a Kshettra Panchayat if he is a member, Adhyaksha or 2[x x x] of the Zila Panchayat ; and (b) a member, Adhyaksha or 2[x x x] of the Zila Panchayat if he is a member, Pramukh or 2[x x x] of a Kshettra Panchayat. (2) A person shall cease to hold the office of member, Pramukh of 2[x x x] of a Kshettra Panchayat, as the case may be if subsequently or simultaneously, he is elected to the office of member, Adhyaksha or 2[x x x] of the Zila Panchayat with effect from the date of such election to the office of member, Adhyaksha or 2[x x x] of the Zila Panchayat, as the case may be. (3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, if in the first elections held after the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Laws (Amendment) Act, 1994, a person is chosen to more than one office which he is disqualified to hold simultaneously under sub-section (1), he shall submit his resignation from all but one of these offices within sixty days of the declaration of the results of elections in respect of the said offices has been made on different dates, within sixty days of the last of such dates and in the event of failure to so resign, all offices except the office in the Zila Panchayat shall be deemed vacant. ]