Preamble

[ THE ORTSSA NOTIFED AREA COUNCLLS mXTENS1ON OF

TERM OF OFFIrn AND VALIDATION) Am?1991I

[R~wivedthc asscnt of the Governor on thc 29th May 1991, first published in an extraordinary issue of the Orissn Gazette, datcd the 4th June 1991 1

AN ACX TO PROVIDE FOR THB ECTENSlON OF OF OFFICE OF CERTAIN NOTIFIED AREA COUNCILS AND VAL~DATION OF A m O N S OF SUCH COUNClLS

INCLUDING THEIR C H A l W .

Be it cnacted by the ~egislatureof tbc 5tate of Orissa in rhc Forty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

Short titlc. 1. This Act may be called thc Orissa Notified Area CounciIs (Extension of Term of OfEce and Validation) Act, 1991.

Dcflalt~ons. 2. In this Act, unless the context othenvise requires,-

1. (a) "Municipal Act" means the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950 ;
2. (b) "NotiEd Area Council" mmns a NotiGcd Area CounciI constitutedunder the Mudcipal Act ;
3. (c) words and expressions used lierein and not defined in this Act but defined in the Municipal Act shall have tlie same meanings as respectively assigacd to them in rlle Municipal Act. Or~ssaAcl 23 or 1950. Extension of 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Act,term of omw and validation. (a) t h ~term of office of the nominated Chairman and membcrs of cacb of the Notified Area Councils specified in column (I) of the Schedule who were validly in office on the date as mentioned against such Council in coIumn (2) thcreof shall be deemed to have been cxtended till the date mentioned against it in column (3) thereof ; and (b)all actions taken, things done or orders passed consistently with the provisions of the Minicipal Act by ach such Notified Area Council as referred to in clause (a) and by the Chairman thereor during the period mentioned against each such Council in column (4) of the Schedule, under the beIicf or purported belief that the term of members and the Chairman of such Council was validly extended, shall, for all intents and purposes, be deemed to have been validly taken, donc or passed ,as the ease may be, and no such action, thing or order shall be mlled in question inany court of law or otherwise opcn to challenge merely on the ground that the term of office of such memkrs and the Chairmanwere not validly extended.