The Director of Municipal Administration (Odisha) Exercise of Jurisdiction Validation Act, 1970

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The Director of Municipal Administration (Orissa) Exercise of Jurisdiction Validation Act, 1970

Act 8 of 1970

Keyword(s): Validation Act, Director of Municipal Administration

*[THE DIRECTOR OF MUNICIPAL ADMINIS- TRATION ( BRISSA ) EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION VALIDATION ACT, 19701

[ Receiyed the asserlt of he Governor on the 28th

Mnrch 1970, first published in an ex Sraordinary issue ofrhe Orissa Gazette, dared the 3rd April, 1970 ] AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE DIRECTOR OF MUNICIPAL ADMINZSTRATION Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Twenty-first Year of the Republic of India, as follow:- 1. (1) This Act may be called the Director of 2~: ::: Municipal Administration (Orissa) Exercise of Juris- amen* diction Val~dation Act, 1970. mat.

1. (2) It shall extend lo the whole of the State of Onssa.
2. (3) It shall come into force at once

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Validation OiSs Orissa Municipal Act, 1950 no action taken or order of 1950. passed by the Director of Municipal Administration within the period from the 1st day of August 1968 to the 12th day of March 1969 in thebelief or purported belief that the said Director while taking such action or making such order was app?inted to act as such Director by an appropriate notdificabon lssued under the said Act, shall be questioned in any court of law or otherwise open to challenge merely on the ground that he was not appointed by a notification as aforesaid and all such actions and orders shdl be deemed to have been validly taken or passed in exercise of the powers confe- rred by or under that Act.