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Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

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CONTENTS

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ACTS:

No.6 of 2025—The Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Amendment) Act, 2025. ..

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No.7 of 2025—The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment)

Act, 2025

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TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY

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: —

Short title and

commencement.

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

(Amendment) Act, 2025.

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

6th day of January 2025.

Substitution of

section 261-A.

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.”.

Tamil Nadu Act 21

of 1994

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.

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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:—

1.

(1) This Act may be called the Chennai Metropolitan

Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 2025.

Short title and

commencement.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

Tamil Nadu Act

28 of 1978.

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;”.

Amendment of

section 4.

(By Order of the Governor)

S. GEORGE ALEXANDER,

Secretary to Government,

Law Department.

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