Section 3

In the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965, in section 3, for sub-sections

1. (2) and (3), the following sub-sections shall be substituted, namely:-- "(2) Any resident of a local area or tax payer for a Municipality, as the case may be, in respect of which any such notification has been published may, if he desires to object to anything therein contained, submit his objection in writing to the Government within six weeks from the publication of the notifica- tion and the Government shall take all such objections into consideration.
2. (3) When six weeks from the publication of the notification have expired and the Government have considered the objections, if any, which have been submitted, they may, as the case may be, by notifica- tion in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, declare to be a Municipality, or include in or exclude from a Munici- pality, the local area or any portion thereof.".