Section 7
Deemed To Be Residing Permanently
(1) For the purposes of clause (c) of Sub-section (1) of Section 5, a person who is habitually residing in the concerned Ward of a Village Development Committee or a Municipality shall be deemed to have permanently resided there.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (1), a residence in any of the following situations shall also be deemed to have resided permanently:
(a) Situation where a person, whose name is registered in the Electoral Rolls of a Ward of a Village Development Committee or Municipality in an constituency and who has been elected as a people’s representative, remains absent from the constituency during his or her tenure;
(b) Situation where a person remains absent from a Ward of a Village Development Committee or Municipality in an constituency where his or her name has been registered, owing to trade, business, study, teaching, governmental or nongovernmental service, medical treatment or any other special work or reason or owing to being detained or imprisoned according to the law.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (1), a residence in any of the following situations shall also be deemed to have resided permanently:
(a) Situation where a person, whose name is registered in the Electoral Rolls of a Ward of a Village Development Committee or Municipality in an constituency and who has been elected as a people’s representative, remains absent from the constituency during his or her tenure;
(b) Situation where a person remains absent from a Ward of a Village Development Committee or Municipality in an constituency where his or her name has been registered, owing to trade, business, study, teaching, governmental or nongovernmental service, medical treatment or any other special work or reason or owing to being detained or imprisoned according to the law.