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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:--- 13. Delimitation of wards.--(1) The ward for election of a Zila Nazim and a Naib Nazim shall be a district; for a Town Nazim and a Naib Town Nazim a Town in a city district, for a Tehsil Nazim and a Naib Tehsil Nazim a tehsil, and for a Union Nazim and a Naib Union Nazim a union. (2) For the purpose of elections of members of a union council other than a Union Nazim and a Naib Union Nazim, the Chief Election Commissioner shall divide the union into wards, by notification, and in the demarcation of wards shall be guided by the following principles:-- (a) the area comprising a ward shall be a territorial unity; (b) the number of members to be elected from a ward in the union shall be in accordance with the population of a union; (c) the village with more population than required for election of a member shall be deemed to be a multi-member ward, and where the total population is not exactly divisible by the number of members to be elected, the remainder shall be disregarded if it is less than half the population required for a member; (d) for the purpose of delimiting ward and safeguarding the territorial unity of a village habitation, a Mauza may be joined with an adjoining Mauza, but the Mauza or the village may not be broken. (e) the union with urban characteristics or situated in a city district may have a minimum of two and maximum of four multi-member wards, and in constituting such wards the blocks delimited for population census shall be grouped: Provided that whole number of census blocks shall be so grouped: Provided further that the Chief Election Commissioner may, in exceptional cases, and for reasons to be recorded, vary the number of seats to be allotted to a ward in such manner as the local circumstances may require. (3) The population of a local area or a ward shall be the population in the last preceding population census as officially published.