https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171072 Under the Gujarat Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1963 and the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993, an elected Chairman or Vice-Chairman may be subjected to a no-confidence motion even without an express enabling provision, where the office is filled by simple majority and the statute does not prohibit removal. The statutory scheme was read to permit implied recall power, supported by meeting rules, casual vacancy provisions, and the General Clauses Act principle that power to appoint generally includes power to remove unless a contrary intention appears. The reasoning emphasizes democratic accountability of elected office-bearers in statutory bodies. en-us Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:30:23 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171072 Under the Gujarat Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1963 and the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993, an elected Chairman or Vice-Chairman may be subjected to a no-confidence motion even without an express enabling provision, where the office is filled by simple majority and the statute does not prohibit removal. The statutory scheme was read to permit implied recall power, supported by meeting rules, casual vacancy provisions, and the General Clauses Act principle that power to appoint generally includes power to remove unless a contrary intention appears. The reasoning emphasizes democratic accountability of elected office-bearers in statutory bodies. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171072