Conversion of city municipal areas into town municipal areas.

[Content provided in document header: Conversion of city municipal areas into town municipal areas.] (1) The Governor may, at any time after consulting the municipal council concerned and considering objections, if any, declare by notification that a city municipal area shall, with effect from a date to be specified in the notification, be a town municipal area constituted under this Act. (2) The provisions of this Act relating to city municipal areas shall not apply to the municipal area declared as a town 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 town municipal area, and any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, bye-law or form, made or issued under any 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the provisions of this Act in respect of the town municipal area constituted by such declaration unless and until it is superseded by any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, bye-law or form, made, issued or imposed under this Act. (4) Before any city municipal area is constituted into a town 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 town 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.