Reduction of term of office of Burla Notified Area Council

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Act the State Government may, by notification, direct that the term of office of the Councillors of the Burla Notified Area Council be reduced by such period as they deem fit, to enable the State Government for inclusion of the territorial limits of Burla Notified Area Council within the limits of larger urban area of the proposed Sambalpur Municipal Corporation in accordance with the provisions of the Odisha Municipal Corporation Act, 2003. (2) Upon reduction of the term of office of Burla Notified Area Council under sub-section (1), it shall be deemed that the term of the said Notified Area Council has expired and accordingly all or any of the powers and duties of the said Council and its Chairperson may be exercised and discharged, as the State Government may determine, by a person to be appointed by the State Government as the Administrator.