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An Act further to amend the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act.

WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session ;

AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that

circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate

action further to amend the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, for

the purposes hereinafter appearing ; and therefore, promulgated the

Maharashtra Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021 on the

30th September 2021;

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance, by an

Act of the State Legislature; it is hereby enacted in the Seventy-second Year

of the Republic of India as follows :—

LIX of

1949.

Mah.

Ord. IV

of 2021.

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In pursuance of clause (3) of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following

translation in English of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act, 2021

(Mah. Act No. I of 2022), is hereby published under the authority of the Governor.

By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,

SATISH WAGHOLE,

I/c. Secretary (Legislation) to Government,

Law and Judiciary Department.

MAHARASHTRA ACT No. I OF 2022.

(First published, after having received the assent of the Governor in the

“Maharashtra Government Gazette”, on the 17th January 2022).

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(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations

(Amendment) Act, 2021.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30th September

2021.

2.

In section 5 of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act

(hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), in sub-section (3), for the

first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely :—

“Provided that, after the commencement of the Maharashtra

Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Act, 2021, in respect of the general

elections to the Corporations, each of the wards shall elect as far as

possible three Councillors, but not less than two and not more than four

Councillors, and each voter shall, notwithstanding anything contained

in this Act, be entitled to cast the same number of votes, as the number

of Councillors to be elected in his ward : ”.

3.

(1) The Maharashtra Municipal Corporations (Amendment)

Ordinance, 2021, is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken

(including any notification or order issued) under the corresponding

provisions of the principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be

deemed to have been done, taken or, as the case may be, issued under the

corresponding provisions of the principal Act, as amended by this Act.

Short title and

commencement.

Amendment

of section 5 of

LIX of 1949.

LIX of

1949.

Mah. I

of 2022.

Mah.

Ord. IV

of 2021.

Repeal of

Mah. Ord. IV

of 2021 and

saving.

ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DIRECTOR,

RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,

MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS,

21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.