Repeal

(1) The following Acts are hereby repealed, namely.-- (a) the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919 ; (c) the Madurai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1971 ; (d) the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981 ; the Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 ; (f) the Tirunelveli City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 ; (g) the Salem City Municipal Corporation Act, 1994. (3) Notwithstanding such repeal,- (a) any person holding office immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act to Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson or Councillor of any municipality under the relevant Acts referred to in sub-section (1) shall on such commencement continue to hold the said office until the expiry of the term of office for which he has been elected and he shall exercise all powers and perform all duties conferred on such Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson or Councillor by or under the provisions of this Act ; (b) any committee constituted under the relevant Acts referred to in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been constituted under this Act and functioning immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act, shall continue to function and exercise such powers and perform such duties conferred by or under the relevant Acts, referred to in the said sub-section (1) until they are constituted or dissolved under this Act ; (c) all rules, by-laws, notifications, notice, orders, directions or any other issued and schemes framed and works sanctioned by the Government or the municipality concerned immediately before the date of the commencement of this Act shall so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force and be deemed to have been issued or framed or sanctioned under the provisions of this Act until they are superseded or modified or reissued under the provisions of this Act; (d) all property whether movable or immovable and all rights and interest of whatsoever kind owned by or vested in or held in trust, by, any municipality immediately, before the date of the commencement of this Act as well as liabilities legally subsisting shall stand transferred to, and vest in that municipality which is deemed to have been constituted under this Act: (e) all things done, made, instituted, executed and appointed by the municipal corporations, municipalities, town panchayats under the relevant Acts referred to in sub-section (1) before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been done, made, instituted, executed or appointed, as the case may be, by the municipal corporations, municipalities and town panchayats deemed to have been constituted under the provisions of this Act.