(1) This Act may be called the Orissa Municipal Councils (Postponement of Elections) Act, 1984.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 4th day of February, 1984.

In this Act, unless the contest otherwise requires:

(a) Municipal Act means the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950;

(b) Municipal Council means a Municipal council constituted under the Municipal Act and includes a Notified Area Council constituted thereunder;

(c) words and expressions used in this Act shall have the same meaning as assigned to them, respectively under the Municipal Act.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Act or in any rules or orders made or issued thereunder:

(a) all proceedings or actions, excepting those actions taken for delimitation of wards and reservation of seats for members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, taken in furtherance of holding general elections for the reconstitution of the Municipal Councils specified in the Schedule are hereby cancelled; and

(d) The general elections for the reconstitution of the said Municipal Councils shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Act and the rules made thereunder on such date not being later than the 30th June, 1984, 3(except for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Council) which shall be held not later than 4(the 31st December, 1988), as may be fixed by the State Government and the election so held shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be a general election held under that Act.

(1) The Orissa Municipal Councils (Postponement of Elections) Act, 1983 (Orissa Act 20 of 1983) the Orissa Municipal Councils (Postponement of Elections) (No. 2) Act, 1983 (Orissa Act 21 of 1983) and the Orissa Municipal Councils (Postponement of Elections) Ordinance, 1984 (Orissa Ordinance No. 3 of 1984) are hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal of the said Ordinance anything done or any action taken thereunder shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act.

SCHEDULE

1. Chikiti Notified Area Council

2. Pipili Notified Area Council

3. Udala Notified Area Council

4. Purushottampur Notified Area Council

5. Banpur Notified Area Council

6. Jagatsinghpur Notified Area Council

7. Buguda Notified Area Council

8. Kendrapara Municipal Council

9. Jharsuguda Municipal Council

10. Tarabha Notified Area Council

11. Bhuban Notified Area Council

12. Nimapara Notified Area Council

13. Hirakud Notified Area Council

14. Deogarh Municipal Council

15. Bhubaneswar Municipal Council

16. Sambalpur Municipal Council

17. Karanjia Notified Area Council

18. Junagarh Notified Area Council

19. Digapabandi Notified Area Council

20. Basudevpur Notified Area Council

21. Bellaguntha Notified Area Council

22. Talcher Municipal Council

23. Padampur Notified Area Council

24. Keonjhargarh Municipal Council

25. Angul Notified Area Council

26. Soro Notified Area Council

27. Khallikote Notified Area Council

28. Chowdwar Municipal Council

29. Jajpur Municipal Council

30. Jajpur Road Notified Area Council

31. Athagarh Notified Area Council

32. Nayagarh Notified Area Council

33. Jatni Notified Area Council

34. Khurda Notified Area Council

35. Balasore Municipal Council

36. Bargarh Municipal Council

37. Dhenkanal Municipal Council

38. Sonepur Municipal Council

39. Titilagarh Notified Area Council

40. Kantabanji Notified Area Council

41. Rairangpur Notified Area Council

42. Sundergarh Municipal Council

43. Birmitrapur Municipal Council

44. Rajgangpur Municipal Council

45. Bhawanipatna Municipal Council

46. Khariar Road Notified Area Council

47. Khariar Notified Area Council

48. Kesinga Notified Area Council

49. Nowarangpur Municipal Council

50. Rayagada Municipal Council

51. Kotpad Notified Area Council

52. Umerkote Notified Area Council

53. Berhampur Municipal Council

54. Parlakhemundi Municipal Council

55. Chatrapur Notified Area Council

56. Sorada Notified Area Council

57. Rambha Notified Area Council

58. Gopalpur Notified Area Council

59. Hinjilicut Notified Area Council

60. Kasinagar Notified Area Council

61. Polasara Notified Area Council

62. Bhanjanagar Notified Area Council

63. Phulbani Notified Area Council

64. Boudnagarh Notified Area Council

65. Binika Notified Area Council

66. Kuchinda Notified Area Council

67. Gudari Notified Area Council

1. For Statement of objects and reasons see Orissa Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 5th March, 1984 (No. 300).

2. [Received the assent of the Governor on the 2nd April, 1984, first published in an extraordinary issue of the Orissa Gazette, dated the 2nd April, 1984]

3. Inserted by Orissa Act 21 of 1984, s. 2.

4. Substituted by the Orissa Municipal Councils (Postponement of Elections) Amendment Act, 1988 (Orissa Act 6 of 1988) s. 2.