The Orissa Notifired Area Councils Extension of Terms Office and Validation Act, 1991

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

In this Act, unless the context othenvise requires,- (a) "Municipal Act" means the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950 ; (b) "NotiEd Area Council" mmns a NotiGcd Area CounciI constituted under the Mudcipal Act ; (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.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Act,- (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 pro- visions of the Minicipal Act by a c h 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 in any court of law or otherwise opcn to challenge merely on the ground that the term of office of such memkrs and the Chairman were not validly extended.

[See CIatrscs (a) and (bj of Secliorr 31

Name of the Not16cd Area Date on wh~ch Datc tilt which Period during which Cou nc~ls. the nominated Ihc tcrm of thc aclions ctc. are CIiairman and Oflicc is vuljdated. members were extendcd validly in Officc. Konark Notified A r a Councrl 1 I

Xodala Notzed Area Council 30-1 1-1988 . . 8-5-1990 1-12-1988 t o 8-5-1 990 moth days illdusive).

Malkangiri Named Area Council G. Udayagiii Notsed Area I Guncil 27-12-1 989 . . 8-5-1990 28-12-3 989 to 8-5-1990 Hamakshyanagar Notified Area (Both days inclusive) Council