Conversion of two municipal areas into city municipal areas.

[Content provided in document header: Conversion of two municipal areas into city municipal areas.] (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 3, the Governor may at any time after consulting the municipal council concerned and considering objections, if any, declare by notification that any town municipal area shall, with effect from a date to be specified in the notification, be a city municipal area constituted under this Act. (2) The provisions of this Act relating to town municipal areas shall not apply to the municipal area declared as a city municipal area under sub-section (1) with effect from the date specified in the declaration. (3) Any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law or form, made, issued or imposed in respect of a municipal area declared as a city municipal area and any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, bye-law or form, made or issued under any other law in respect of such municipal area shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made, issued or imposed under the provisions of this Act, unless and until it is superseded by any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law or form, made or issued or imposed under this Act. (4) Before any town municipal area is constituted into a city municipal area, the procedure prescribed in section 9 shall, as far as may be, be followed. (5) The property, rights and liabilities of the municipal council of a municipal area declared as a city municipal area under sub-section (1) shall vest in the municipal council of the said municipal area with effect from the date specified in the notification.