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section 3

Postponement of certain municipal elections and extension of term of administrators

The Maharashtra Municipalities (Postponement of Elections due to Ensuing General Elections to Municipal Councils) Act, 1978
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  1. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipalities Act, or any rules, orders and by-laws made thereunder or in any judgement, decree or order of any Court,—
    • (a) during the period from the date of commencement of this Act and upto and inclusive of [2the 31st day of May 1980] or such earlier date as may be notified by the State Government under sub-section
  2. (3) of section 1 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the said period”) no general election of the Councillors or President of any Municipal Councils, of which general elections were held in November-December 1974, and no election to fill, any casual vacancy of any Councillor or President in such Municipal Councils, shall be held;
    • (b) the term of office of any administrator or administrators of any Municipal Councils or exercising the powers and performing the duties of any President, who were in office on the date of commencement of this Act (whether their term or extended term had expired before or will expire after the said date at any time during the said period) shall be deemed to have been extended, or to be extended as the case may be, and every administrator or any other person appointed as administrators in their places, from time to time, shall continue to hold office during the said period.
  3. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), after the term of office of the administrators as extended by this Act expires, they shall continue to hold office till the date immediately preceding the day on which the first meeting of the constituted or reconstituted Municipal Council, as the case may be, is held, where there is a quorum. (Footnote 2: These words, figures and letters were substituted for the words, figures and letters “the 31st day of December 1979”, ibid., s. 10.)

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