This Act may be called the Gujarat Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1965.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

(1) local authority means

(i) a municipal corporation constituted under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 (Bom. LIX of 1949),

(ii) a municipality constituted or deemed to be constituted under the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 (Guj. 34 of 1963),

(iii) a district local board constituted under the Bombay Local Boards Act, 1923 (Bom. VI of 1923),

(iv) a village panchayat constituted under the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958 (Bom. III of 1959), or

(v) a gram panchayat, nagar panchayat, taluki panchayat or district panchayat constituted or deemed to be constituted under the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961 (Guj. VI of 1962);

(2) relevant enactment in relation to a local authority means an enactment under which such local authority is or is deemed to be constituted.

(1) Notwithstanding anything certained in the relivant enactment, the term of office of the councillors, or members of a local authority or the term of a local authority, which by reason of the provision specified against the relevant enactment in column 2 Schedules would have expired after the commencement of this Act but before the end of the 30th June, 1967, shall not so expire and shall subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) be extended up to the end of the 30 June 1967.

(2) In the case of a, local authority to which sub-section (1) applies, it shall be lawful for the State Government to terminate, by notification in the Official Gazette, the term of office of the councillors or members or, as the case may be the, term of the local authority on a date earlier than the 30th June, 1967, but not earlier than

(i) ninety days from the date of the publication of such notification in the Official Gazette, or

(ii) the date on which the term of office of the councillors or members, or as the case may be, the term of the local authority would have expired under the relevant provision specified in column 2 of the Schedule.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the relevant enactment, after the commencement of this Act during the period ending on the 30th June, 1965, or ending on such earlier date as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, no vacancy in the office of a councillor or, as the case may be, member of a local authority, which according to the provisions. Of the relevant enactment has to be filled by election, shall be so filled and the State Government or, an, officer not below the rank of a Collector authorised by the State Government may fill such vacancy by appointing a person from amongst the persons qualified to be elected under the relevant enactment.

(2) Any person appointed under sub-section (1) shall hold office so long only as the councillor or, as the case may be, member in whose place he has been appointed would have held office; had the vacancy not occurred.

(3) For the purpose of this section vacancy includes a vacancy which has occurred before the commencement of this Act and has not been filled.

(4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to a vacancy in the office of a member of a taluka panchayat elected under clause (iii) of sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961 (Guj. VI of 1962), or to a vacancy in the office of a member of a district panchayat elected under clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 15 of that Act.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the relevant enactment, if any local authority has been superseded or dissolved or is deemed to have been superseded or dissolved under the provision specified against the relevant enactment in column 3 of the Schedule before the commencement of this Act and the period of supersession or the period specified for the reconstitution thereof expires after such commencement but before the 30th June, 1967, such supersession shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), continue upto the end of the 30th June, 1967.

(2) In the case of a local authority to which, sub-section (1) applies. It shall be lawful for the State Government to terminate, by notification in the Official Gazette, the period of supersession or the period specified for the reconstitution thereof, as the case may be, on a date earlier than the 30th June, 1967 but not earlier than

(i) three months from the date of the publication of such notification in the Official Gazette, or

(ii) the date on which the period of supersession or the period specified for the reconstitution of the local authority, as the case may be, would have expired.

In the case of local authorities to which sections 3, 4 and 5 apply, the relevant enactment shall have effect as if

(a) the term of office of the councillors or members of the local authority or the term of the local authority as extended under section 3 had been extended under the provision specified in column 2 of the Schedule against such enactment;

(b) the period of supersession of the local authority as extended under section 5 had been extended under the provision specified in column 3 of the Schedule against such enactment; and

(c) section 4 had been enacted therein.

SCHEDULE

(See sections 3, 5 and 6)

1. (Received the assent of the Governor on 29th November, 1965 and published in the Gujarat Government Gazette on the 29th November 1965)