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No. 61] CHENNAI, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2025 Maasi 1, Kurothi, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2056

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

CONTENTS Pages.

ACTS:

No.6 of 2025—The Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Amendment) Act, 2025. .. .. 24 No.7 of 2025—The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment)

Act, 2025 .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 IV-2—Ex. (61)

[23]TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 24 The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 7th February 2025 and is hereby published for general information:—

ACT No. 6 OF 2025.

An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Panchayats

Act, 1994.

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

1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Panchayats

Short title and

(Amendment) Act, 2025.

commencement.

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

6th day of January 2025.

Substitution of

Tamil Nadu Act 21 section 261-A.

of 1994 2. For section 261-A of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted, namely: —

"261-A. Appointment of Special Officers.— Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, or in any other law for the time being in force, the Government may, by notification, appoint Special Officers to exercise the powers and discharge the functions of the village panchayats, the panchayat union councils or the district panchayats, as the case may be, until the day on which the first meeting of the said village panchayats, panchayat union councils or the district panchayats, as the case may be, is held after ordinary elections to the panchayats other than the panchayats in the districts of Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi, after the date of commencement of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Amendment) Act, 2025, or upto the 5th day of July 2025, whichever is earlier.".

Validation. 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, the Special Officers appointed by the Government to exercise the powers and discharge the functions of the village panchayats, panchayat union councils or the district panchayats other than the panchayats in the districts of Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi with effect on and from the 6th day of January 2025, shall be deemed to have been appointed as such Special Officers under section 261-A of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, and anything done or any action taken by the said Special Officers during the period commencing on and from the 6th day of January 2025 and ending with the date of publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, shall be deemed to have been validly done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.

(By Order of the Governor)

S. GEORGE ALEXANDER,

Secretary to Government,

Law Department.

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 7th February 2025 and is hereby published for general information:—

ACT No. 7 OF 2025.

An Act further to amend the Chennai Metropolitan

Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1978.

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

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

commencement.

Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 2025.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

Tamil Nadu Act

Amendment of 28 of 1978.

section 4.

2. In section 4 of the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Act,1978, after clause (dd), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—

"(ddd) the Deputy Secretary to Government, Finance

Department, ex-officio;".

(By Order of the Governor)

S. GEORGE ALEXANDER,

Secretary to Government,

Law Department.

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