Repeal and Savings

Repeal and Savings.-

1. (1) The Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1958 (Tamil Nadu Act 35 of 1958) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Act) is hereby repealed.
2. (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the said Act, -
   • (a) all local areas constituted as Panchayat Development Blocks or Panchayat Villages for the purpose of the said Act shall be deemed to have been constituted as Panchayat Development Blocks or Panchayat Villages for the purpose of this Act;
   • (b) every Panchayat Union Council and every Village Panchayat constituted or deemed to have been constituted under the said Act and functioning immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a Panchayat Union Council or a Village Panchayat constituted under this Act;
   • (c) the members of the Panchayat Union Council or Village Panchayat holding office as such immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act shall continue to hold their office as such members for the remainder of the period for which they would have held office under the said Act;
   • (d) all property, all rights of whatever kind, used, enjoyed or possessed by and all interests of whatever kind owned by or vested in or held in trust by or for the Panchayat Union Council or Village Panchayat constituted under the said Act, as well as all liabilities legally subsisting against them shall pass to the Panchayat Union Council or Village Panchayat reconstituted under this Act;
   • (e) all suits, prosecutions and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against the Panchayat Union Council or Village Panchayat constituted under the said Act may be continued or instituted by or against the Panchayat Union Council or Village Panchayat reconstituted under this Act;
   • (f) all appointments, notifications, notices, taxes, fees, rules, bye-laws, regulations or orders made or issued or imposed under the said Act and subsisting on the date of the commencement of this Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been made, issued or imposed under this Act until they are superseded or modified by any appointment, notification, notice, tax, fee, rule, bye-law, regulation or order made, issued or imposed under this Act;
   • (g) all references made in any enactment to the said Act shall, so far as may be, be construed as references to this Act and the corresponding provision thereof.