Extension of term of office and validation of actions taken by the Balugaon Notified Area Council and its Chairman.

(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 Balugaon Notified Area Council as extended by the direction issued by the State Government under sub-section (6) of section 41 of the Municipal Act and last published with the notification of the State Government in the Housing and Urban Development Department No. 14276, dated the 2nd April, 1987 be further extended from the 10th day of September, 1987 to the 14th day of September, 1988. (2) All actions taken and orders passed by the Balugaon Notified Area Council in the district of Puri and by its Chairman during the period from the 10th day of September, 1987 to the 21st day of February, 1988 (both the days inclusive) in the belief or purported belief that the term of office of the Councillors was validly extended shall, for all intents and purposes, be deemed to have been validly taken and passed and no such action or order shall be questioned in any Court of law or otherwise open to challenge merely on the ground that the term of office of the Councillors was not validly extended.