Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Metropolitan Planning Committees (Constitution and Functions) (Continuance of Provisions) Act, 1999.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra excluding the Scheduled Areas declared by the President of India, from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of India.
3. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 29th June 1999.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) "article" means the article of the Constitution of India;
2. (b) "development plan" means the draft development plan prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Committee under this Act, in consonance with the provisions of article 243-ZE;
3. (c) "Metropolitan area" means a Metropolitan area as specified by the Governor under clause (c) of article 243-P;
4. (d) "Municipality" means a Municipality as defined in clause (e) of article 243-P;
5. (e) "Panchayat" means a Village Panchayat consituted at the village level under the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958 (Bom. III of 1959) and the Panchayat Samitis and Zilla Parishads constituted at the intermediate and the District level respectively under the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961(Mah. V of 1962);
6. (f) "population" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published;
7. (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.