Power to apply certain provisions of Punjab Act III of 1911 to Chandigarh.

(1) The Chief Administrator may, from time to time by notification in the Official Gazette and with the previous approval of the Central Government apply to Chandigarh or part thereof with such adaptations and modifications not affecting substance as may be specified in the notification, any of the provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911 specified in the Second Schedule appended to this Act in so far as such provisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. (2) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), the Chief Administrator shall, in relation to Chandigarh or part thereof, as the case may be, exercise the powers and perform the same functions under the provisions applied by such notification as a Municipal Committee or its President or Executive Officer of the Committee would meet in performing if Chandigarh were a Municipality of the first class. (3) While exercising functions under the provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, applied to Chandigarh by a notification under sub-section (1), the Chief Administrator shall be subject to the control of the Central Government and not to that of the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner. (4) The Central Government may from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Second Schedule or add thereto, any other provision of that Act.