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No. 56] CHENNAI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2022 Thai 8, Pilava, Thiruvalluvar Aandu–2053

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

CONTENTS

Pages.

ACTS:

No. 1 of 2022—The Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. 10-16 No. 2 of 2022—The Kancheepuram City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. 17-22 No. 3 of 2022—The Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. 23-28 No. 4 of 2022—The Karur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. .. 29-34 No. 5 of 2022—The Tambaram City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. 35-40 No. 6 of 2022—The Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. .. 41-48 No. 7 of 2022—The Chennai City Police (Extension to the Cities of Avadi and

Tambaram, Act, 2022.

49-56 No. 8 of 2022—TheTamil Nadu Municipal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2022. .. 57-60 No. 9 of 2022—The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation)

Amendment Act, 2022.

61 IV-2 Ex. (56)—1

[9]TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 10 The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 1 of 2022

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Cuddalore.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title,

1. (1) This Act may be called the Cuddalore City Municipal

extent and

Corporation Act, 2022.

commencement.

(2) It extends to the city of Cuddalore.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the

21st day of October 2021.

Definitions. 2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) "city of Cuddalore" or "city" means the local area comprised in the Cuddalore municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of

Cuddalore established under section 3;

(c) "council" means the council of municipal

corporation of Cuddalore;

(d) "Government" means the State Government;

(e) "municipal council" means the municipal council of

Cuddalore municipality;

(f) "municipality" means the Cuddalore municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act 25 of

1981. (2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the "1981 Act"), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for

city of Cuddalore.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the local area included in the Cuddalore municipality shall constitute the city of Cuddalore for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city by the name of Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this

sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Cuddalore municipality, functioning immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the

authorities.

provisions of this Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(c) a standing committee;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the

council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not be less than fifty per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution.

Duration of

corporation.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be

completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-

section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from

the date of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act V of

Tamil Nadu District 1920.

Municipalities Act,

1920 not to apply.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the "District Municipalities Act") shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Cuddalore.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in respect of the local area comprised within the city of Cuddalore;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city of Cuddalore until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

Application of

provisions of 1981

Act to corporation.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of

Cuddalore,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city of Cuddalore and Cuddalore municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Cuddalore Corporation, Corporation of Cuddalore and Municipal Corporation of Cuddalore, respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or special order, give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or payments had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against, the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A of the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Cuddalore municipality into wards, made under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Cuddalore municipality under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll is prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating to each ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the corresponding division of the corporation.

Appointment of

Special Officer.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of—

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(c) the commissioner, and

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform

the duties and discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors

come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing

committee is appointed by the corporation; and

(c) of the commissioner, until a commissioner is appointed by the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall hold office for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the first meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation, whichever is earlier.

Power to make rules.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the

purposes of this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Government may, by an order published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry

of two years from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

Tamil Nadu 13. (1) The Cuddalore City Municipal Corporation Ordinance,

saving.

Ordinance 1 of 2021 is hereby repealed.

2021. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any action taken or any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information:—

Act No. 2 of 2022.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Kancheepuram.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title, 1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Kancheepuram City Municipal

extent and Corporation Act, 2022.

commencement.

(2) It extends to the city of Kancheepuram.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 21st day of

October 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.

(a) "city of Kancheepuram" or "city" means the local area comprised

in the Kancheepuram municipality and includes any local area which, after

the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not

include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act,

is excluded from the city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Kancheepuram

established under section 3;

(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation of

Kancheepuram;

(d) "Government" means the State Government;

(e) "municipal council" means the municipal council of

Kancheepuram municipality;

(f) "municipality" means the Kancheepuram municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article

366 of the Constitution.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but

defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter

Tamil Nadu Act

25 of 1981. referred to as the "1981 Act"), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned

to them in the 1981 Act.

Establishment 3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this

of municipal Act, the local area included in the Kancheepuram municipality shall constitute

corporation for the city of Kancheepuram for the purposes of this Act and from such date of

city of Kanchee- the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to

puram.

have been established for the said city by the name of Kancheepuram City

Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation

with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under

this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas

specified in the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-

section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate,

having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold

and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate

name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Kancheepuram municipality, functioning immediately before

the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been

abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of

authorities.

this Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(c) a standing committee;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall

council.

consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this

Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so,

however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed

seventy-two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council,

namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies

which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of

the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take

part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of

the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number

of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to

the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the

population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the

city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the

persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which

shall not be less than fifty per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the

persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number

of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent including the

number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall

cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the

Constitution.

Duration of 6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five

corporation.

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election

and no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution

of the corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date

of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the

dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall

not be necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting

the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act

Tamil Nadu 7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

V of 1920.

District Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the

Municipalities "District Municipalities Act") shall, with effect on and from the date of the

Act, 1920 not to commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within

apply.

the city of Kancheepuram.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in respect

of the local area comprised within the city of Kancheepuram;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any

offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect of

such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders,

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued

or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of

the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with

the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised

within the city of Kancheepuram until they are replaced by the appointments,

notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences,

permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred

under this Act.

Application of 8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions

provisions of of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of

1981 Act to any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the

corporation.

corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and

construed as if the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of

the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make

such adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws

made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any

provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981

Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the

adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has

been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of

the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal

or authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the

purpose of facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these

provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may be

necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or

authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Kancheepuram,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

Municipality, shall by reason of this Ordinance, be construed as a reference

to the city of Kancheepuram and Kancheepuram municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation

of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason

of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Kancheepuram Corporation,

Corporation of Kancheepuram and Municipal Corporation of Kancheepuram,

respectively.

Transitional

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed

provisions.

by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by

or for the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or

possessed by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting

against the municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of

this Act and subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or

special order, give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for

a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal

council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they

had accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or

payments had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of

the commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall

be deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this

Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and

duties are revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action

taken under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or

authority or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued

by, or against, the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had

been commenced under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any

authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have

been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if

this Act had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or

employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this

Act, was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such

commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and

employees consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall

not be less favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately

before the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances,

leave, pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee

under the municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed

to be service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service

for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the

municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in

such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of

the corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A

of the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the

municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Kancheepuram municipality into wards,

made under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the

commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation

until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Kancheepuram municipality under

the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of

this Act, shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new

electoral roll is prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating

to each ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral

roll for the corresponding division of the corporation.

Appointment of 10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a

Special Officer.

Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the

functions of—

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(c) the commissioner, and

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and

discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into

office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is

appointed by the corporation; and

(c) of the commissioner, until a commissioner is appointed by

the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive

remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government

under sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality

functioning immediately before the date of commencement of this Act

shall be deemed to be the Special Officer of the corporation and he shall

exercise the powers and perform the duties and discharge the functions as

those exercised, performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed

under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed to in sub-section (1) shall hold office

for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the

first meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation,

which ever is earlies

Power to make

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of

rules.

this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into

force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are

so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day

on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this

Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table

of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which

it is so placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in

any such rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or

notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or

order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect,

as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment

shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that

rule or notification or order.

Power to

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this

remove

Act, the Government may, by an order published in the

difficulties.

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with

the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for

removing the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years

from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

Tamil Nadu 13. (1) The Kancheepuram City Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 2021

saving.

Ordinance 2 of is hereby repealed.

2021. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any action taken or

any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been

done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 3 of 2022.

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal Corporation

for the City of Sivakasi.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title, 1. (1) This Act may be called the Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation

extent and Act, 2022.

commence-

ment.

(2) It extends to the city of Sivakasi.

(3) It shall be deemend to have come into force on the

21st day of October 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.

(a) "city of Sivakasi" or "city" means the local area comprised in

the Sivakasi municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the

commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local

area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the

city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Sivakasi

eastabelished under section 3;

(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation of

Sivakasi;

(d) "Government" means the State Government;

(e) "municipal council" means the municipal council of Sivakasi

municipality;

(f) "municipality" means the Sivakasi municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of

the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act 25

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined

of 1981.

but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter

referred to as the "1981 Act"), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to

them in the 1981 Act.

Establishment 3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the

of municipal local area included in the Sivakasi municipality shall constitute the city of Sivakasi

corporation for for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act,

city of Sivakasi.

a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city

by the name of Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation

with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this

sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in

the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this sub-

section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate,

having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and

dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue

and be sued.

(3) The Sivakasi municipality, functioning immediately before the

date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished

from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of this

authorities.

Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(c) a standing committee;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall consist

council.

of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this Act as may

be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that

the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy-two at any

time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies

which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of

the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take part in

the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes

and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of seats so reserved shall

bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be

filled by direct election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in

the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes

and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not

be less than fifty per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of seats

reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent including the number of

seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled

Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease to

have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution.

Duration of 6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five

corporation.

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and

no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of

its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved

corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary

to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such

period.

Tamil Nadu District 7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

Municipalities Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the "District

Tamil Nadu Act

Act, 1920 not to Municipalities Act") shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement

V of 1920.

apply.

of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Sivakasi.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in

respect of the local area comprised within the city of Sivakasi;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of

any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect

of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions,

licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued or conferred

under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the commencement

of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this

Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city of Sivakasi

until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws,

regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers

to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

Application of 8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of

provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax

1981 Act to or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation

corporation.

and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if

the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of

the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such

adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made

thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions

thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the

rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations

and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has

been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981

Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority

required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of

facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such

manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper having

regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Sivakasi,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city

of Sivakasi and Sivakasi municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of

Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act,

be construed as a reference to the Sivakasi Corporation, Corporation of Sivakasi

and Municipal Corporation of Sivakasi, respectively.

Transitional

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed

provisions.

by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for

the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed

by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the

municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and

subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or special order,

give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for

a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal

council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had

accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or payments

had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the

commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be

deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act

and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are

revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this

Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority

or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against,

the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced

under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any

authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been

taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act

had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer

or employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act,

was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such

commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees

consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less

favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date

of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity,

provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the

municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service

under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose

of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the

municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in

such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the

corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in Section 73-A of the

District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality

on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Sivakasi municipality into wards, made under the

District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this

Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Sivakasi municipality under the District

Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall

be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll

is prepared and published and the part of the said electoral roll relating to each

ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the

corresponding division of the corporation.

Appointment of 10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special

Special Officer.

Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of—

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(c) the commissioner, and

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and

discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is

appointed by the corporation; and

(c) of the commissioner, until a commissioner is appointed

by the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive

remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under sub-

section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately before

the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special Officer

of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and

discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the

Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall hold office

for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the first

meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation which ever

is earlies.

Power to make

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this

rules.

Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil

Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on

a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on

which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act

shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of

the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so

placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such

rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or

order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter

have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so,

however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the

validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions

difficulties.

of this Act, the Government may, by an order published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the

provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for removing

the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years from

the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

Tamil Nadu Act 13. (1) The Sivakasi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2021 is hereby

saving.

2 of 2021. repealed.

(2) Not with standing such repeal, anything done, any action taken

or any direction given under the said Act, shall be deemed to have been done,

taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 4 of 2022.

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal Corporation

for the City of Karur.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Karur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. Short title,

extent and

commence-

ment.

(2) It extends to the city of Karur.

(3) It shall be deemend to have come into force on the

21st day of October 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.

(a) "city of Karur" or "city" means the local area comprised in the Karur

municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement

of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local area which, after

such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Karur

established under section 3;

(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation of Karur;

(d) "Government" means the State Government;

(e) "municipal council" means the municipal council of Karur

municipality;

(f) "municipality" means the Karur municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the

meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of

the Constitution.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but

defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred

Tamil Nadu Act

to as the "1981 Act"), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the

25 of 1981.

1981 Act.

Establishment 3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act,

of municipal the local area included in the Karur municipality shall constitute the city of Karur for

corporation the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a

for city of municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city by

Karur.

the name of Karur City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation

with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this

sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in

the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this

sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate,

having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and

dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and

be sued.

(3) The Karur municipality, functioning immediately before the

date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished

from such date of the commencement of this Act.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the provisions of Municipal this Act shall be,—

authorities.

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(c) a standing committee;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of 5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall

council.

consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this Act as

may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that

the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy two at any

time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the council,

namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing

constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and

the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the

corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly

representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the

corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take

part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the

council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of

seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total

number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the population of the

Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total

population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not

be less than fifty per cent. of the total number of seats reserved for the persons

belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the

number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent. including

the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall

cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the

Constitution.

Duration of 6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five

corporation.

years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and

no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the

corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date

of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved

corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary

to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such

period.

Tamil Nadu 7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the

District Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the "District

Municipalities Municipalities Act") shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement of

Tamil Nadu Act

Act, 1920 this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Karur.

V of 1920.

not to apply.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act

in respect of the local area comprised within the city of Karur;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect

of any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in

respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or

punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all

appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations,orders,

directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued

or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the

commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the

provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within

the city of Karur until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices,

rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes,

forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

Application of 8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of

provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax

1981 Act to or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation

corporation.

and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the

provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the

1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such

adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made

thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions

thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the

rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations and

modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under

sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and

bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered

to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to

the corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the

substance, as may be necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the

court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of Karur,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore

municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city

of Karur and Karur municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of

Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act,

be construed as a reference to the Karur Corporation, Corporation of Karur and

Municipal Corporation of Karur, respectively.

Transitional

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by

provisions. and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for

the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed by

the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal

council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and subject to such

directions as the Government may, by general or special order, give in this behalf,

vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for a tax,

or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal council on

the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the

corporation and may be recovered as if the said arrears or payments had become

due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the

commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be

deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act

and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are

revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this

Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority

or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against,

the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced

under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any authority

before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been taken by

the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act had been in

force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or employee

who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, was in the

service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such commencement,

be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees

consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less

favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date

of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity,

provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the

municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service

under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose

of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the municipality

shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in such manner as

may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the corporation or to be

transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A of the District Municipalities

Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality on such retrenchment

benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Karur municipality into wards, made under the District

Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall

be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Karur municipality under the District

Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall

be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll is

prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating to each ward of the

municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the corresponding

division of the corporation.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special Appointment Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of— of Special

Officer.

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(c) the commissioner, and

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties and

discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is appointed

by the corporation; and

(c) of the commissioner, until a commissioner is appointed by the

Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive remuneration

for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under

sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately

before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special

Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties

and discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the

Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall

hold office for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which

the first meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation,

which ever is eavlies

Power to make

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of

rules.

this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force

on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are

expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on

which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act

shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of

the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so

placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such rule

or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or order

should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have

effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however,

that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of

anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the

Power to

Government may, by an order published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette,

remove

make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to

difficulties.

them to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years from

the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

Tamil Nadu 13. (1) The Karur City Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 2021 is hereby

saving.

Ordinance repealed.

4 of 2021.

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

any direction given under the said ordinance, shall be deemed to have been

done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 5 of 2022

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Tambaram.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title, 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation

Act, 2022.

extent and commencement.

(2) It extends to the city of Tambaram.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 3rd day of

November 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.

(a) "city of Tambaram" or "city" means the local area comprised in the Tambaram municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of Tambaram

established under section 3;

(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation of

Tambaram;

(d) "Government" means the State Government;

(e) "municipal council" means the municipal council of Tambaram

municipality;

(f) "municipality" means the Tambaram municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act

25 of 1981.

(2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the "1981 Act"), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.

Establishment of municipal corporation for city of Tambaram.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the local area included in the Tambaram municipality shall constitute the city of Tambaram for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city by the name of Tambaram City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification under this

sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Tambaram municipality, functioning immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the

authorities.

provisions of this Act shall be,—

(1) a Mayor;

(2) a council;

(3) a standing committee;

(4) a wards committee; and

(5) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall consist of such number of councillors elected inthe manner laid down in this Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy-two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the

council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not be less than fifty per cent. of the total number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent. including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution.

Duration of

corporation.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section

(1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the

date of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act V

Tamil Nadu District of 1920.

Municipalities Act, 1920 not to apply.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the "District Municipalities Act") shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Tambaram.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in

respect of the local area comprised within the city of Tambaram;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of

any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws,regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city of Tambaram until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

Application of

provisions of 1981 Act to corporation.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of

Tambaram,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city of Tambaram and Tambaram municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Tambaram Corporation, Corporation of Tambaram and Municipal Corporation of Tambaram, respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or special order, give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or payments had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against, the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less favourable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A of the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Tambaram municipality into wards, made under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Tambaram municipality under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll is prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating to each ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the corresponding division of the corporation.

Appointment of

Special Officer.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of—

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(c) the commissioner, and

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform the duties

and discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors come into

office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing committee is

appointed by the corporation; andTAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 40 (c) of the commissioner, until a commissioner is appointed by the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appionted under sub-section (1) shall hold office for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the first meeting of the Council is held after ordinary election to the corporation, is whichever is earlier.

Power to make

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the

rules.

purposes of this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Government may, by an order published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty.

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years

from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Repeal and

Tamil Nadu 13. (1) The Tambaram City Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 2021 is

saving.

Ordinance hereby repealed.

5 of 2021.

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

any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been

done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 6 of 2022

An Act to provide for the Establishment of a Municipal

Corporation for the City of Kumbakonam.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title, extent and 1. (1) This Act may be called the Kumbakonam City Municipal

commencement.

Corporation Act, 2022.

(2) It extends to the city of Kumbakonam.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the

20th day of December 2021.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.

(a) "city of Kumbakonam" or "city" means the local area comprised in the Kumbakonam municipality and includes any local area which, after the date of the commencement of this Act, is included in the city but does not include any local area which, after such date of the commencement of this Act, is excluded from the city;

(b) "corporation" means the municipal corporation of

Kumbakonam established under section 3;

(c) "council" means the council of municipal corporation

of Kumbakonam;

(d) "Government" means the State Government;

(e) "municipal council" means the municipal council of

Kumbakonam municipality;

(f) "municipality" means the Kumbakonam municipality;

(g) "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes" shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution.

Tamil Nadu Act 25 of

1981. (2) All words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but defined in the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the "1981 Act"), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in the 1981 Act.

Establishment

of municipal

corporation for city

of Kumbakonam.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the local area included in the Kumbakonam municipality shall constitute the city of Kumbakonam for the purposes of this Act and from such date of the commencement of this Act, a municipal corporation shall be deemed to have been established for the said city by the name of Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation:

Provided that the Government may, from time to time, after consultation with the corporation, by notification, alter the limits of the city constituted under this sub-section so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom the areas specified in the notification:

Provided further that the power to issue a notification

under this sub-section shall be subject to previous publication.

(2) The corporation shall, by the said name, be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and may by its corporate name, sue and be sued.

(3) The Kumbakonam municipality, functioning immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been abolished from such date of the commencement of this Act.

Municipal

.

4. The municipal authorities charged with carrying out the

authorities.

provisions of this Act shall be,—

(a) a Mayor;

(b) a council;

(c) a standing committee;

(d) a wards committee; and

(e) a commissioner.

Constitution of

council.

5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the council shall consist of such number of councillors elected in the manner laid down in this Act as may be fixed by the Government, by notification, from time to time, so, however, that the total number of councillors of the council shall not exceed seventy two at any time.

(2) The following persons shall also be represented in the

council, namely:—

(a) the members of the House of the People representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation and the members of the Council of States registered as electors within the area of the corporation;

(b) all the members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the area of the corporation.

(3) The persons referred to in sub-section (2) shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings but shall not have the right to vote in the meetings of the council.

(4) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the council and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the council as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city.

(5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from among the seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, which shall not be less than fifty per cent of the total number of seats reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

(6) Seats shall be reserved for women in the council and the number of seats reserved for women shall not be less than fifty per cent including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of the total number of seats in the council.

(7) The reservation of seats under sub-sections (4) and (5) shall cease to have effect on the expiry of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution.

Duration of

corporation.

6. (1) The corporation, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting after each ordinary election and no longer and the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the corporation.

(2) An election to constitute the corporation shall be

completed,—

(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in

sub-section (1); or

(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from

the date of its dissolution:

Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved corporation would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election, under this sub-section for constituting the corporation for such period.

Tamil Nadu Act V of

Tamil Nadu District 1920.

Municipalities Act,

1920 not to apply.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the "District Municipalities Act") shall, with effect on and from the date of the commencement of this Act, cease to apply to the local area comprised within the city of Kumbakonam.

(2) Such cessor shall not affect,—

(a) the previous operation of the District Municipalities Act in respect of the local area comprised within the city of Kumbakonam;

(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the District Municipalities Act; or

(c) any investigation, legal proceedings or remedy in respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), all appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers, made or issued or conferred under the District Municipalities Act and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force in the local area comprised within the city of Kumbakonam until they are replaced by the appointments, notifications, notices, rules, bye-laws, regulations, orders, directions, licences, permissions, schemes, forms and powers to be made or issued or conferred under this Act.

Application of

provisions of 1981

Act to corporation.

8. (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of the 1981 Act, including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax or fee are hereby extended to and shall apply, mutatis mutandis to the corporation and the 1981 Act shall, in relation to the corporation, be read and construed as if the provisions of this Act had formed part of the 1981 Act.

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the 1981 Act to the corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of the 1981 Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, the 1981 Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the corporation subject to the adaptations and modifications so made.

(3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the 1981 Act, or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder, any court, tribunal or authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to the corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper having regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or authority.

(4) In the 1981 Act as extended and applied to the city of

Kumbakonam,—

(a) any reference to the city of Coimbatore and Coimbatore municipality, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city of Kumbakonam and Kumbakonam municipality, respectively; and

(b) any reference to the Coimbatore Corporation, Corporation of Coimbatore and Municipal Corporation of Coimbatore, shall by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Kumbakonam Corporation, Corporation of Kumbakonam and Municipal Corporation of Kumbakonam, respectively.

Transitional

provisions.

9. (1) All property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust by or for the municipal council with all rights of whatever kind used, enjoyed or possessed by the municipal council as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against the municipal council, on and from the date of the commencement of this Act and subject to such directions as the Government may, by general or special order, give in this behalf, vest with the corporation.

(2) All arrears of taxes or other payments by way of composition for a tax, or due for expenses or compensation, or otherwise due to the municipal council on the date of such commencement may be recovered as if they had accrued to the corporation and may be recovered as if such arrears or payments had become due, under the provisions of this Act.

(3) All taxes, fees and duties, which immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act were being levied by the municipal council shall be deemed to have been levied by the corporation under the provisions of this Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly until such taxes, fees and duties are revised, cancelled or superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.

(4) All proceedings taken by, or against, the municipal council or authority or any person under the District Municipalities Act may be continued by, or against, the corporation, authority or person as if such proceedings had been commenced under the provisions of this Act.

(5) Any action taken under the District Municipalities Act, by any authority before the date of such commencement shall be deemed to have been taken by the authority competent to take such action under this Act as if this Act had been in force.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, every officer or employee who, immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, was in the service of the municipality shall, on and from the date of such commencement, be deemed to be an officer or employee of the corporation:

Provided that—

(a) the terms and conditions applicable to such officers and employees consequent on their absorption in the service of the corporation shall not be less favorable than those applicable to such employees immediately before the date of such commencement, as regards pay and allowances, leave, pension, gratuity, provident fund and age of superannuation; and

(b) the service rendered by any such officer or other employee under the municipality upto the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be service under the corporation and he shall be entitled to count that service for the purpose of increment, leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity:

Provided further that any officer or other employee serving in the municipality shall be given an option to be exercised within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed either to be absorbed in the service of the corporation or to be transferred to the service referred to in section 73-A of the District Municipalities Act or to be retrenched from the service of the municipality on such retrenchment benefits as may be prescribed.

(7) Any division of the Kumbakonam municipality into wards, made under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a division of the corporation until altered.

(8) The electoral roll prepared for the Kumbakonam municipality under the District Municipalities Act, and in force on the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be the electoral roll for the corporation until a new electoral roll is prepared and published and the part of the electoral roll relating to each ward of the municipality shall be deemed to be the list of the electoral roll for the corresponding division of the corporation.

Appointment of

Special Officer.

10. (1) There shall be appointed by the Government, by notification, a Special Officer to exercise the powers, perform the duties and discharge the functions of—

(a) the council,

(b) the standing committee,

(c) the commissioner, and

(d) the wards committee.

(2) The Special Officer shall exercise the powers, perform

the duties and discharge the functions,—

(a) of the corporation, until the elected councillors

come into office;

(b) of the standing committee, until a standing

committee is appointed by the corporation; and

(c) of the commissioner, until a commissioner is appointed by the Government and such officer may, if the Government so direct, receive remuneration for his services from the municipal fund.

(3) Until a new Special Officer is appointed by the Government under sub-section (1), the Special Officer of the municipality functioning immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the Special Officer of the corporation and he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and discharge the functions as those exercised, performed and discharged by the Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1).

(4) The Special Officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall hold office for six months from the date of his appointment or until the day on which the first meeting of the council is held after ordinary elections to the corporation, whichever is earlier.

Power to make rules.

11. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the

purposes of this Act.

(2) (a) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(b) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, as soon as possible, after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the Assembly makes any modification in any such rule or notification or order, or the Assembly decides that the rule or notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Government may, by an order published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to them to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of

two years from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Tamil Nadu

Repeal and 13. (1) The Kumbakonam City Municipal Corporation

Ordinance 7 of

saving.

Ordinance, 2021 is hereby repealed.

2021.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done, any action taken or any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done, taken or given under this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 7 of 2022.

An Act to extend the provisions of the Chennai City Police

Act, 1888 to the Cities of Avadi and Tambaram.

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

Short title and 1. (1) This Act may be called the Chennai City Police

commencement.

(Extension to the cities of Avadi and Tambaram) Act, 2022.

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

1st day of January 2022.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.

(1) "city of Avadi" means the local area comprising the limits

of the police stations specified in Schedule I;

(2) "city of Tambaram" means the local area comprising the

limits of the police stations specified in Schedule II;

Tamil Nadu

(3) "City Police Act" means the Chennai City Police Act, 1888;

Act III of 1888.

(4) "date of publication of this Act" means the date of publication of the Chennai City Police (Extension to the cities of Avadi and Tambaram) Act, 2022 in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette;

(5) "Government" means the Government of Tamil Nadu;

(6) "law in force" includes any enactment, Act, regulation, order, by-law, rule, scheme or notification in force in the whole or in any part of the State or any instrument having the force of law in the whole or in any part of the State;

(7) "Schedule" means a Schedule appended to this Act;

(8) "State" means the State of Tamil Nadu.

Extension of

Tamil Nadu

Act III of 1888.

3. (1) With effect on and from the date of publication of this Act, the City Police Act as in force immediately before the date of publication of this Act, shall stand extended to, and shall be in force, in the cities of Avadi and Tambaram.

(2) In the City Police Act, as extended to the cities of Avadi

and Tambaram,—

(a) any reference to the city of Chennai (other than the reference in section 3) shall, by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be;

(b) any reference to the Commissioner of Police for Chennai shall, by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, as the case may be.

Power of

Government

to authorize

Commissioner

4. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in section 7 of the City Police Act, the Government may, by notification, and subject to such conditions and limitation as may be specified therein, empower,—

of Police and

certain other

police officers

in cities of

Avadi and

Tambaram

to exercise

powers

of District

Magistrates

and Executive

Magistrates

under Code

of Criminal

Procedure,

1973.

Central Act 2 of

1974. (a) the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, to exercise and perform in relation to the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be, the powers and duties of an Executive Magistrate and of a District Magistrate under such of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Code) or of any other law in force relating to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State, as may be specified in the notification;

(b) any officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram (not being an officer below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police) to exercise and perform in relation to the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be, the powers and duties of an Executive Magistrate under such of the provisions of the said Code or of any other law in force relating to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State, as may be specified in the notification.

(2) Every officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, shall, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties, which he is empowered to exercise or perform functions under sub-section (1), be subject to the general control of the respective Commissioner of Police in the same manner and to the same extent as an Executive Magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said Code would be subject to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under that section.

(3) The Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, or any officer subordinate to such Commissioner, shall not be subject, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise and perform under sub-section (1), to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said Code.

Police force

functioning in

cities of Avadi

and Tambaram

immediately

before date of

publication of

this Act to be

deemed to be

police force

constituted

5. (1) The police force functioning in the city of Avadi and in the city of Tambaram, immediately before the date of publication of this Act (hereinafter in this section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on the date of publication of this Act, be deemed to be the police force constituted for the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be, under the City Police Act as extended, by this Act and every member of the existing police force holding office immediately before the date of publication of this Act shall be deemed to be appointed on such date of publication, as members of the police force for the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be.

under City

Police Act as

extended.

(2) All proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before any police officer of the existing police force immediately before the date of publication of this Act, shall on the date of publication of this Act, be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which he is deemed to be appointed under sub-section (1) and shall be dealt with accordingly.

(3) Where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged under any law by a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate immediately before the date of publication of this Act has been conferred on the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram or any other police officer by or under the City Police Act as extended, all proceedings in relation to, or arising from, the exercise of such power or the discharge of such function pending immediately before such conferment before the District Magistrate or Executive Magistrate, as the case may be, shall on the conferment of such power or function on the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram or other police officer, stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, or other police officer, as the case may be, and the officer to whom such proceedings stand so transferred shall either proceed de novo or from the stage of such transfer.

Control of

Director

General of

Police over

Commissioner

of Police for

6. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the City Police Act as extended, the Commissioner of Police for Avadi and the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram shall, in exercise of their functions under the City Police Act as extended, be under the control and direction of the Director-General of Police for the State, subject to any rules that may be made under sub-section (2).

Avadi and

Tambaram.

(2) It shall be competent to the Government to make rules to limit and regulate the exercise of the powers of control and direction conferred on the Director-General of Police by sub- section (1) in respect of the Commissioner of Police for Avadi and the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply in relation to the powers and functions which may be exercised or discharged by the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, as the case may be, under any law as a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate.

Construction of

reference to

laws not in

force in cities

of Avadi and

7. (1) Any reference in the City Police Act as extended by this Act to a law which is not in force in the cities of Avadi or Tambaram, on the date of publication of this Act shall, in relation to those cities, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in the said cities.

Tambaram.

Central Act

XXIV of 1859.

(2) Any reference to the Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 in any law in force in the cities of Avadi and Tambaram shall, in relation to those cities, be construed, on and after the date of publication of this Act, as reference to the City Police Act.

Repeal of

Central Act corresponding

XXIV of 1859. law.

8. If, immediately before the date of publication of this Act, there is any law in force in the cities of Avadi or Tambaram including the Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Central Act) and the provisions of the City Police Act specified in the Schedule to the Central Act and extended by way of notification under section 54-A of the Central Act corresponding to the City Police Act, such corresponding law shall, on the date of publication of this Act, stand repealed in relation to the cities of Avadi or Tambaram, as the case may be, to the extent to which the corresponding law relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State.

Savings.

9. (1) The repeal by section 8 of any corresponding law shall

not affect—

(a) the previous operation of any such law or anything

done or duly suffered thereunder; or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired,

accrued or incurred under any such law; or

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in

respect of any offence committed against any such law; or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if the City Police Act had not been extended.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), anything done or any action taken, including any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, rule, regulation, form, by-law or scheme framed, certificate, permit or licenceTAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 53 granted or registration effected under such corresponding law, in relation to the cities of Avadi or Tambaram, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the City Police Act and shall continue in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under the said City Police Act as extended.

Construction of

reference to

authorities where

new authorities

have been

constituted.

10. Any reference by whatever form or words in any law in force to any authority competent on the date immediately preceding the date of publication of this Act, to exercise any power or discharge any function in the cities of Avadi or Tambaram, shall, where a corresponding new authority has been constituted by or under the City Police Act as extended or under this Act to the said cities, have effect as if it were a reference to that new authority.

Powers of courts and

other authorities

for purposes

of facilitating

application of City 11. For the purpose of facilitating the application, in the city of Avadi and in the city of Tambaram, of the City Police Act as extended, any court or other authority may construe the said Act with such alteration not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the court or other authority.

Police Act.

Power to remove

difficulties.

12. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of the City Police Act as extended by this Act, to the cities of Avadi and Tambaram, the Government may, as occasion may require, by order, do anything which appear to them to be necessary for the purpose of removing the difficulty:

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry

of two years from the date of the commencement of this Act.

Power to amend 13. The Government may, by notification, amend the Schedules,

Schedules.

so as to include or exclude any police station.

Power to make rules.

14. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out all or

any of the purposes of this Act.

(2) All rules made or notification issued under this Act shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, and unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(3) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, as soon as possible after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the Legislative Assembly agrees that the rule or notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.

Tamil Nadu

Repeal and saving.

15. (1) The Chennai City Police (Extension to the cities of Avadi

Ordinance

and Tambaram) Ordinance, 2021 is hereby repealed.

1 of 2022.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken or any direction given under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken or given under this Act.

SCHEDULE – I

City of Avadi

[See section 2(1)]

SCHEDULE – II

City of Tambaram

[See section 2(2)]

(By order of the Governor) C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legistative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. 8 of 2022.

An Act further to amend the laws relating to the Municipal

Corporations and Municipalities in the State of Tamil Nadu.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu

in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

PART – I.

PRELIMINARY.

Short title and 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Municipal Laws

commencement.

(Amendment) Act, 2022.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 20th day of

December 2021.

PART – II.

AMENDMENT TO THE CHENNAI CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 1919.

Tamil Nadu Act IV

Amendment of of 1919.

section 414-B.

2. In section 414-B of the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – III.

AMENDMENT TO THE TAMIL NADU DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES

ACT, 1920.

Tamil Nadu Act V of

Amendment of 1920.

section 375-B.

3. In section 375-B of the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – IV.

AMENDMENT TO THE MADURAI CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 1971.

Tamil Nadu Act 15

Amendment of of 1971.

section 510-AAA.

4. In section 510-AAA of the Madurai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1971, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – V.

AMENDMENT TO THE COIMBATORE CITY MUNICIPAL

CORPORATION ACT, 1981.

Tamil Nadu Act 25

Amendment of of 1981.

section 511-AAA.

5. In section 511-AAA of the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – VI.

AMENDMENT TO THE TIRUCHIRAPPALLI CITY MUNICIPAL

CORPORATION ACT, 1994.

Amendment of

Tamil Nadu Act 27 section 10-A.

of 1994.

6. In section 10-A of the Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – VII.

AMENDMENT TO THE TIRUNELVELI CITY MUNICIPAL

CORPORATION ACT, 1994.

Amendment of

Tamil Nadu Act 28 section 10-A.

of 1994.

7. In section 10-A of the Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – VIII.

AMENDMENT TO THE SALEM CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 1994.

Amendment of

Tamil Nadu Act 29 section 10-A.

of 1994.

8. In section 10-A of the Salem City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – IX.

AMENDMENT TO THE TIRUPPUR CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 2008.

Amendment of

Tamil Nadu Act 7 of section 9-A.

2008. 9. In section 9-A of the Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – X.

AMENDMENT TO THE ERODE CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 8 of

Amendment of 2008.

section 9-A.

10. In section 9-A of the Erode City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XI.

AMENDMENT TO THE VELLORE CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 26

Amendment of of 2008.

section 9-A.

11. In section 9-A of the Vellore City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XII.

AMENDMENT TO THE THOOTHUKUDI CITY MUNICIPAL

CORPORATION ACT, 2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 27

Amendment of of 2008.

section 9-A.

12. In section 9-A of the Thoothukudi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XIII.

AMENDMENT TO THE THANJAVUR CITY MUNICIPAL

CORPORATION ACT, 2013.

Tamil Nadu Act 24

Amendment of of 2013.

section 9-A.

13. In section 9-A of the Thanjavur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2013, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XIV.

AMENDMENT TO THE DINDIGUL CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 2013.

Tamil Nadu Act 25

Amendment of of 2013.

section 9-A.

14. In section 9-A of the Dindigul City Municipal Corporation Act, 2013, for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XV.

AMENDMENT TO THE HOSUR CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

ACT, 2019.

Tamil Nadu Act 10

Amendment of of 2019.

section 10.

15. In section 10 of the Hosur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019, in sub-section (4), for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XVI.

AMENDMENT TO THE NAGERCOIL CITY MUNICIPAL

CORPORATION ACT, 2019.

Tamil Nadu Act 11

Amendment of of 2019.

section 10.

16. In section 10 of the Nagercoil City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019, in sub-section (4), for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

PART – XVII.

AMENDMENT TO THE AVADI CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT,

2019.

Tamil Nadu Act 24

Amendment of of 2019.

section 10.

17. In section 10 of the Avadi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019, in sub-section (4), for the expression "upto the 31st day of December 2021", the expression "upto the 30th day of June 2022" shall be substituted.

Tamil Nadu

Repeal and saving.

18. (1) the Tamil Nadu Municipal Laws (Third Amendment) Ordinance,

Ordinance

2021 is hereby repealed.

8 of 2021.

Tamil Nadu Act IV

of 1919.

Tamil Nadu Act V of

1920.

Tamil Nadu Act 15

of 1971.

Tamil Nadu Act 25

of 1981.

Tamil Nadu Act 27

of 1994.

Tamil Nadu Act 28

of 1994.

Tamil Nadu Act 29

of 1994.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920, the Madurai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1971, the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981, the Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, the Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, the Salem City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, the Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, the Erode City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, the Vellore City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, the Thoothukudi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008, the Thanjavur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2013, the Dindigul City Municipal Corporation Act, 2013, the Hosur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019, the Nagercoil City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019 and the Avadi City Municipal Corporation Act, 2019 as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the respective Acts and Ordinance, as amended by this Act.

Tamil Nadu Act 7 of

2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 8 of

2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 26

of 2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 27

of 2008.

Tamil Nadu Act 24

of 2013.

Tamil Nadu Act 25

of 2013.

Tamil Nadu Act 10

of 2019.

Tamil Nadu Act 11

of 2019.

Tamil Nadu Act 24

of 2019.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 21st January 2022 and is hereby published for general information:—

Act No. 9 of 2022.

An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce

Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Short title and 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Agricultural

commencement.

Produce Marketing (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2022.

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

27th of November 2021.

Tamil Nadu

Amendment Act 27 of 1989.

of section 33.

2. In section 33 of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in the proviso to sub-section (1), for the expression "ten years and six months", the expression "eleven years and six months" shall be substituted.

Tamil Nadu

Repeal and Ordinance

saving.

6 of 2021.

3. (1) The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Second Amendment Ordinance, 2021 is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (Legislation),

Law Department.

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