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ORDINANCE VI OF 2000 BALOCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION ORDINANCE, 2000 ORDINANCE VI OF 2000 An Ordinance to provide for holding elections for the establishments of local Governments in the Province of Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 5th October, 2000] No. Legis.-1-122(Law)/2000, dated 5-10-2000.---The following Ordinance made by the Governor of Balochistan on 5th October, 2000, is hereby published for general information:--- 7. Tehsil council and town council.--(1) All Naib Nazims of union councils in a town or a tehsil shall be members of the town council or, as the case may be, of tehsil council. (2) In addition to the members specified in subsection (1), the following percentages of the total number of seats in the tehsil council and the town council shall be reserved seats:-- (a) thirty-three percent., for women, (b) five percent. for peasants and workers, (c) Five percent. subject to a minimum of one seat, for minority communities. (3) In a sparsely populated Tehsil or, a Tehsil in a district with a single Tehsil, Government may dispense with the need for constituting a Tehsil Council. (4) There shall be a Nazim and a Naib Nazim of a town council and a tehsil council. (5) The Naib Tehsil Nazim and the Naib Town Nazim shall be the speaker of the tehsil council or the town council, as the case may be.