Duration of Municipality

(1) Every Municipality, unless sooner dissolved under any law for the time being in force, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the elected and nominated members of the Board functioning immediately before the coming into force of this Regulation shall continue to be members till the expiration of the term prescribed under section 9 or the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Municipal Boards) Regulation, 1957 as it stood before its repeal. (3) An election to constitute a Municipality shall be completed, - (a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section(1); (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 Municipality would have continued, is less than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election under this sub-section for constituting the Municipality for such period. (4) A Municipality constituted upon the dissolution of a Municipality before the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Municipality would have continued under sub-section(1) had it not been so dissolved.