MAHARASHTRA ACT No. X OF 2022.

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

“Maharashtra Government Gazette”, on the 25th January 2022).

An Act further to amend the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar

Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965.

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 Councils, Nagar

Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965, for the purposes hereinafter

appearing; and therefore, promulgated the Maharashtra Municipal Councils,

Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021

on the 1st October 2021 ;

Mah.

XL of

1965.

Mah.

Ord.

V of

2021.

RNI No. MAHENG /2009/35528

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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 Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships

(Amendment) Act, 2021 (Mah. Act No. X 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.

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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:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar

Panchayats and Industrial Townships (Amendment) Act, 2021.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st October 2021.

2. In section 10 of the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats

and Industrial Townships Act, 1965 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal

Act”), in sub-section (2), for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted,

namely :—

“Provided that, after the commencement of the Maharashtra Municipal

Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships (Amendment)

Act, 2021, in respect of the general elections to the Municipal Councils, each

of the wards shall elect as far as possible two Councillors but not more than

three Councillors, and each voter shall, notwithstanding anything contained

in sub-section (2) of section 14, 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 Councils, Nagar Panchayats and

Industrial Townships (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

commence-

ment.

Amendment

of section 10

of Mah. XL of

1965.

Repeal of

Mah. Ord. V

of 2021 and

saving.

Mah.

XL of

1965.

Mah. X

of 2022.

Mah.

Ord. V

of 2021.

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.