Power to extend the Trivandrum City Municipal Act to areas near the

City to which provisions of the present Act have been applied.—(1) When all or any provisions of this Act have been apphed to any area m the neigh- bourhood of the City under sub-section (2) of section 1, the Govern- ment may, by notification, declare that all or any of the provisions of the Trivandrum City Municipal Act shall be extended to and be in force in, such area.

1. (2) The provisions so notified shall be constiued with such al- terations not affecting the substance as may be necessaiy or proper for the purpose of adapting them for such area.
2. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provi- sion, except in so far as the notification issued under sub-section (1) may otherwise direct, all references in the provisions so extended to the Corporation or the Council or a standing committee thereof shall be construed as references to the Board, all references to the Commissioner as references to the Chairman, all references to any other officer or ser- vant of the Corporation as references to the corresponding officer or servant of the Board, and all references to the limits oF the City as re- ferences to the Jimits of such area—
3. (4) When all or any of the provisions of the Trivandrum City Municipal Act are extended under sub-section (I) to any area—
   • (a) the Travancore District Mumcipaltics Act, 1116, or the Travancore-Cochin Panchayats Act, 1950, as the casc may be, in so far as the same may be 1n force in such area, shall be deemed to be repealed therein, and
   • (b) except in so far as the notification issued under sub-section
4. (1) may otherwise direct, the rules, by-laws, regulations, orders, directions and powers, made, issued or conferred under the provisions of the Trivandrum City Municipal Act, which have been so extended and are in force on the date of such extension, shall apply to the said area, in supersession of the corresponding rules, by-laws, regulatious, orders, directions and powers (if any) made, issued or conferred under the Travancore District Municipalities Act, 1116, or the Travancore- Cochin Panchayats Act, 1950, as the case may be. ' 143. Publication vd notafications under sections 1 (2) and 142 (1) tn draft for criticism.—(1) Before publishing a notification under sub-section (2) of section 1, or sub-section (1) of section 142, in respect of any area, the Government shall publish a draft of the same in the Gazette. i (2) Any rate-payer or inhabitant of such area may, if he objects to the draft, submit his objection in writing to the Government within six weeks fiom its publication, and the Government shall take such objection nto consideration. R