Establishment and Incorporation of Improvement Boards

(1) As soon as may be, after the commencement of this Act the Government, may by notification, establish for the purposes of this Act a Board for any urban area to be called the “The Improvement Board of ........................\".

(2) The Board shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract and shall by the said name sue and be sued.

(3) The jurisdiction of the Board constituted in respect of any urban area shall stand extended to such other areas as may be notified under clause (o) of sub-section (1) of section 2 in respect of such urban area, with effect from the date of such notification.