Consequences of extension of term of existing Councillors and fixation of day for retirement for them

As a result of the extension of the term of office of the Councillors and the fixation of the day for retirement in respect of them under sub-section

1. (1) of section 2, the following consequences shall ensue, and the provisions of the principal Act, in so far as they relate to the matters hereinafter specified in this section, shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly :—
   • (i) All Councillors who are elected at the general elections referred to in sub-section
2. (5) of section 4 and all Councillors who are elected to fill casual vacancies thereafter, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in sections 7 and 9 of the principal Act, retire from office at noon on the first day of April 1983.
   • (ii) The Councillors shall, at their first meeting held after such general elections, appoint one of their own number to be Mayor until the first meeting of the Corporation in the official year commencing on the first day of April 1979.
   • (iii) The members of the Standing Committee, the Improvements Committee, the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Committee, the Education Committee and other Committees shall be appointed at the first meeting of the Councillors after such general elections, or as soon as possible thereafter.
   • (iv) The Standing Committee, the Improvements Committee, the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Committee and the Education Committee appointed under clause
   • (iii) shall, each at their first meeting, appoint one of their own number to be its Chairman, until the first meeting of such Committee in April 1979.
   • (v) One-half of the members of the Standing Committee and the Improvements Committee appointed under clause
   • (iii) shall retire at noon on the first day of April 1979. The members who shall so retire shall be selected by lot at such time previous to the first day of March 1979 and in such manner as the Chairman of the concerned Committee may determine.
   • (vi) One-half of the members of the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Committee appointed under clause
   • (iii) shall retire at noon on the first day of April 1980. The members who shall so retire shall be selected by lot at such time previous to the first day of March 1980 and in such manner as the Chairman of that Committee may determine.
   • (vii) One-half of the Councillor members and one-half of the other members of the Education Committee appointed under clause
   • (iii) shall retire at noon on the first day of April 1979.