Power to apply certain provisions of the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1968 to an urban estate.

(1) The Chief Administrator may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, and with the previous approval of the State Government, apply to an urban estate or any part thereof, with such adaptations and modifications not affecting the substance, as may be specified in the notification, all or any of the provisions of the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1968 specified in the Schedule to this Act, in so far as such provisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. (2) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), the Chief Administrator shall, in relation to an urban estate or any part thereof, as the case may be, exercise the same powers and perform the same functions under the provisions applied by such notification as a Municipal Committee or its President or Executive Officer or any other functionary of the Committee would exercise and perform if the urban estate were a municipality of the first class. (3) While exercising the powers or performing the functions under the provisions of the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1968 as applied to an estate by a notification in the Official Gazette under sub-section (1), the Chief Administrator shall be subject to the control of the State Government and not to that of the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner. (4) The State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, omit any provision of the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1968, from the schedule or add thereto any other provision of that Act and there upon the schedule shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly. (5) Every notification made under sub-section (1) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly while it is in session and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the House agrees to make any modification in the notification or the House agrees that the notification should not be made, the notification 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 notification.