TAMIL NADU MERGED STATES (LAWS) ACT, 1949
(Tamil Nadu Act 35 of 1949)
Received the assent of the Governor on the 29th December 1949 and first published in the Fort St. George Gazette on the 30th December 1949.
An Act to extend certain laws to the States of Pudukkottai, Banganapallee and Sandur which are administered as parts of the Province of Madras
Whereas by an order made under section 290-A of the Government of India Act, 1935, provision has been made for the administration of the States of Pudukkottai, Banganapallee and Sandur as if they formed part of the [Province of Madras];
And Whereas it is expedient to provide that certain laws should be extended to, and by virtue of such extension, should be in force in the said States; It is hereby enacted as follows : -
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act maybe called the [Tamil Nadu] Merged States (Laws) Act, 1949.
(2) It shall come into force on the 1st day of January 1950.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, -
(1) the expression "merged States" means the States of Pudukkottai, Banga-napallee and Sandur, and the expression "merged State" means any of those States;
(2) the expression "new Provinces" means the Chief Commissioners Provinces constituted by the States Merger (Chief Commissioners Provinces) Order, 1949, as amended by the States Merger (United Provinces) Order, 1949.
3. Extension of enactments. - So much of the enactments specified in the First Schedule as extends to the [[Province] of Madras] and relates to matters with respect to which the [Provincial] Legislature has power to make laws for the [Province] is hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the merged State or States specified in the corresponding entry in the first column thereof.
4. Interpretation of enactments as extended. - In any enactment specified in the First Schedule, notwithstanding anything contained in the General Clauses Act, 1897 (Central Act X of 1897), or in the [Tamil Nadu] General Clauses Act, 1867 [Tamil Nadu] Act 1 of 1867), or in the [Tamil Nadu] General Clauses Act, 1891 [Tamil Nadu] Act 1 of 1891) -
(a) any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Acceding States shall be construed as not including a reference to any of the merged States or to any of the States (other than the United State of Saurashtra) mentioned in the States Merger (Chief Commissioners Provinces) Order, 1949, as amended by the States Merger (United Provinces) Order, 1949;
(b) any reference, by whatever form of words, to Indian British subjects shall be deemed to include a reference to persons who, immediately before the 1st day of August 1949, were subjects of any of the merged States or of any of the States (other than the United State of Saurashtra) mentioned in the States Merger (Chief Commissioners Provinces) Order, 1949, as amended by the States Merger (United Provinces) Order, 1949;
(c) any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Provinces generally or to the Chief Commissioners Provinces generally shall be construed as including a reference to the new Provinces; and
(d) any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Province of Madras shall be construed as including a reference to the merged State or States concerned.
5. Repeal of corresponding laws. - If, immediately before the commencement of this Act, there is in force in any merged State, an Act, Ordinance, Regulation or other law corresponding to an enactment specified in the First Schedule, whether such Act, Ordinance, Regulation or other law is in force by virtue of an Order under the Extra-Provincial Jurisdiction Act, 1947 (Central Act XLVII of 1947), or by virtue of any other Legislative power, such corresponding law shall, upon the commencement of this Act, stand repealed to the extent to which the law relates to matters with respect to which the [Provincial] Legislature has power to make laws for the [Province]:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall affect the operation of the transitional provisions contained in the Schedule to Local Administration Department Notifications Nos. 253 and 254, dated 29th March 1949, published at pages 125 and 126 of Part I-A of the [Fort St. George Gazette], dated the 29th March 1949.
6. Savings. - (1) The repeal by section 5 of this Act of any corresponding law in force in any merged State immediately before the commencement of this Act shall not affect -
(a) the previous operation of any such law, or
(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any such law, or
(c) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment,
and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), anything done or any action taken, including any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, rule, regulation, form, by-law or scheme framed, certificate, patent, permit or licence granted or registration effected, under such corresponding law shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provision of the enactment as now extended to, and in force in, the merged State and shall continue in force accordingly unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under the said enactment [or by virtue of the operation of section 16].
7. Powers of Courts and other authorities for purposes of facilitating application of laws. - For the purpose of facilitating the application in any merged State of any enactment specified in the First Schedule, any Court or other authority may construe such enactment with such alterations not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the Court or other authority.
8. Extension of [Tamil Nadu] Act III of 1931. - (1) The [Tamil Nadu] Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1931 [Tamil Nadu] Act III of 1931) as amended by subsection (2), is hereby extended to, and shall be in force in the merged States; and sections 4 to 7 shall apply in relation to that Act as if it had been included in the First Schedule.
(2) The Act aforesaid shall be amended as follows : -
(a) To section 2, clause (iii), the following words shall be added at the end, namely : -
"and includes in the area which formerly formed part of the State of Pudukkottai, a panchayat constituted under any enactment for the time being in force in that area."
(b) To section 19, the following Explanation shall be added, namely :-
"Explanation. - The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any area which formerly formed part of the State of Pudukkottai, Banganapallee or Sandur as if the [Provincial] Government had power to pay such compensation to the local bodies in the said area as the [Provincial] Government may, by order determine."
9. Extension of Madras Act VI of 1932. - (1) The Madras Co-operative Societies Act, 1932 (Madras Act VI of 1932), amended by sub-section (2), is hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the merged States; and sections 4 to 7 shall apply in relation to that Act as if it had been included in the First Schedule.
(2) To sub-section (1) of section 62 of the Act aforesaid, the following paragraph shall be added, namely : -
"Every society which has been registered under the law applicable to cooperative societies in the areas which formerly formed part of the State of Pudukkottai, Banganapallee or Sandur and the by-laws of which are not in consistent with the express provisions of this Act or any rule made thereunder, shall, if the Registrar by an order in writing so declares, be deemed to be registered under this Act and its by-laws shall continue in force until they are altered or rescinded.".
10. Extension of Tamil Nadu Act X of 1937. - (1) The [Tamil Nadu] Prohibition Act, 1937 [Tamil Nadu] Act X of 1937), as amended by sub-section (3), is hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the States of Pudukkottai and Banganapallee; and sections 4 to 7 shall apply in relation to that Act as if it had been included in the First Schedule.
(2) The Act aforesaid as amended by sub-section (3), is hereby extended to the State of Sandur; and when the whole of that Act is brought into force in that State, sections 4 to 7 shall apply in relation to that Act as if it had then been included in the First Schedule.
(3) To section 2 of the Act aforesaid, the following Explanation shall be added, namely : -
"Explanation. - For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that if a notification is issued in pursuance of the foregoing proviso, in respect of any area which formerly formed part of the State of Pudukkottai, Banganapallee or Sandur, the enactments mentioned in the Schedule with any subsequent statutory modifications thereof shall come into force in such area with effect on and from such date as may be specified in the notification."
11. Extension of [Madras Acts] II of 1948 and XXII of 1948. - The [Tamil Nadu] Silkworm Diseases (Prevention and Eradication) Act, 1948 [Tamil Nadu] Act II of 1948), and the Madras Weights and Measures Act, 1948 [Madras Act] XXII of 1948), are hereby extended to the merged States; and when the whole of either of the said Acts is brought into force in any merged State, sections 4 to 7 shall apply in relation to that Act as if it had then been included in the First Schedule.
12. Extension of [Tamil Nadu] Act VII of 1949. - The Madras City Police and Gaming (Amendment) Act, 1949 [Tamil Nadu] Act VII of 1949), is hereby extended to the merged States.
13. Special provision in respect of Banganapallee. - Any judgment delivered, order made or sentence passed before the 1st day of April 1949, by any Court, civil or criminal, having jurisdiction in respect of the State of Banganapallee or any part thereof shall, for all purposes including execution, appeals and the like, take effect and shall be deemed always to have taken effect, as if it had been delivered, made or passed by the Court which would have been competent to deliver, make or pass such judgment, order or sentence on the said date.
14. Special provisions in respect of Sandur. - (1) Sections 15, 15-A, 16, 30, 31 and 32 of the Police Act, 1861 (Central Act V of 1861), as in force in the [Province of Madras] are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the State of Sandur.
(2) (a) So much of the Sandur State Railways (Jurisdiction) Proclamation, 1947, issued by the Rule of the State of Sandur on the 15th day of August 1947 as relates to the exercise of powers by the police force belonging to that State in the railway lands in that State shall stand repealed.
(b) Any action taken by any member of the police force belonging to the [Province of Madras] on or after the 15th day of August 1947 and before the commencement of this Act in the railway lands in the State of Sandur shall be deemed to have been taken by a member of the police force belonging to that State in pursuance of the power conferred by the Proclamation aforesaid.
(3) (a) In regard to the first reconstitution in accordance with the provisions of the [Tamil Nadu] [Local Boards Act, 1920] [Tamil Nadu] Act XIV of 1920) as extended to the State of Sandur by this Act, of panchayats in existence at the commencement thereof, and otherwise in first giving effect to the said provisions, they shall be read subject to the rules in the Second Schedule.
(b) The [Provincial] Government shall have power by notification in the [Fort St. George Gazette] to amend, add to or repeal the rules in the said Schedule.
(4) (a) Any judgment delivered, order made or sentence passed, before the commencement of this Act by any Court, civil or criminal, having jurisdiction in respect of the State of Sandur or any part thereof shall, for all purposes, including execution, appeals and the like, take effect and shall be deemed always to have taken effect as if it had been delivered, made or passed by the Court which would have been competent to deliver, make or pass such judgment, order or sentence immediately after such commencement.
(b) The High Court may, by general or special order, transfer any proceeding pending immediately before the commencement of this Act in any of the Courts, civil or criminal, having jurisdiction in respect of the State of Sandur or any part thereof, to any Court which would have jurisdiction to entertain such proceeding if it were instituted immediately after such commencement; and the Court to which the proceeding may be so transferred, shall have full power to dispose of the same as if it had been originally instituted in that Court.
15. Power to remove difficulties. - If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act or of any enactment extended to any merged State by this Act, the [Provincial] Government, as occasion may require, may, by order, do anything which appears to them necessary for the purpose of removing the difficulty.
[16. Extension of subsidiary laws to the merged States. - (1) All subsidiary laws which, immediately before the 1st day of January 1952, extend to, or are in force in, the taluk specified in column (1) of the table below but do not extend to, or are not in force in, the merged State specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Table, shall, as from that day, extend to, or as the case may be, come into force in such merged State : -
Taluk Merged State
1 2
Tiruchirappalli taluk of the Tiruchirappalli district Pudukkottai
Kurnool taluk of the Kurnool district Banganapallee
Bellary taluk of the Bellary district Sandur
(2) Sections 4, 7 and 15 shall be construed as if the reference to "enactment" occurring in them included also a reference to the subsidiary laws mentioned in sub-section (1).
Explanation. - In this section "subsidiary law" means -
any rule, regulation, by-law, form, notification, order, instruction or direction issued,
any scheme framed,
any certificate, patent, permit or licence granted,
any registration effected, or
any other thing done or action taken,
under any of the enactments extended to any merged State or States by this Act.]
First Schedule
(See section 3)
Name of States Year Number Short title
1 2 3 4
Central Acts
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1841 XXIV The Illusory Appointments and Infants Properly Act, 1841.
Do. 1850 XXXVII The Public Servants (Inquiries)Act, 1850.
Do. 1851 VIII The Indian Tolls Act, 1851.
Do. 1854 XXXI The Conveyance of Land Act, 1854.
Do. 1855 XXIII The Mortgaged Estates Administration Act, 1855.
Do. 1856 XV The Hindu Widows Re-marriage Act, 1856.
Do. 1860 XXI The Societies Registration Act, 1860.
Do. 1863 XX The Religious Endowments Act, 1863.
Do. 1870 VII The Court-fees Act, 1870.
Do. 1871 I The Cattle-trespass Act, 1871.
Do. 1875 XVIII The Indian Law Reports Act, 1875.
Do. 1876 XIX The Dramatic Performances Act, 1876.
Do. 1878 I The Opium Act, 1878.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1878 VI The Indian Treasure-trove Act, 1878.
Do. 1880 XII The Kazis Act, 1880.
Do. 1882 IV The Transfer of Property Act, 1882.
Do. 1883 XIX The Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883.
Do. 1884 XII The Agriculturist's Loans Act, 1884.
Do. 1886 VI The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886.
Do. 1887 VII The Suits Valuation Act, 1887.
Do. 1887 IX The Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887.
Do. 1890 VI The Charitable Endowments Act, 1890.
Do. 1894 I The Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
Do. 1894 IX The Prisons Act, 1894.
Do. 1895 XV The Crown Grants Act, 1895.
Do. 1897 III The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
Do. 1897 XIV The Indian Fisheries Act, 1897.
Do. 1899 II The Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
Do. 1899 XIII The Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899.
Do. 1900 III The Prisoners Act, 1900.
Do. 1908 XIV The Indian Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1908.
Do. 1912 VIII The Wild Birds and Animals Protection Act, 1912.
Do. 1914 II The Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914.
Do. 1914 IX The Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914.
Do. 1917 XXVI The Transfer of Property Validating Act, 1917.
Do. 1918 II The Cinematograph Act, 1918.
Do. 1918 X The Usurious Loans Act, 1918.
Do. 1920 XIV The Charitable and Religious Trusts Act, 1920
Do. 1920 XXXIII The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920.
Do. 1920 XXXIX The Indian Election Offences and Inquiries Act, 1920.
Do. 1922 XXII The Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922.
Do. 1923 III The Cotton Transport Act, 1923.
Do. 1923 XLII The Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923.
Do. 1925 XXXIX The Indian Succession Act, 1925.
Do. 1926 XII The Contempt of Courts Act, 1926.
Do. 1928 XII The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928.
Do. 1929 II The Hindu Law of Inheritance (Amendment) Act, 1929.
Do. 1929 XXI The Transfer of Property (Amendment) Supplementary Act, 1939.
Do. 1930 II The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1931 XXIII The Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931.
Do. 1932 XI The Public Suits Validation Act, 1932.
Do. 1932 XXIII The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1932.
Do. 1934 XXX The Petroleum Act, 1934.
Do. 1937 I The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937.
Do. 1937 XVIII The Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act, 1937.
Do. 1938 X The Cutchi Memons Act, 1938.
Do. 1939 XXX The Commercial Documents Evidence Act, 1939.
Do. 1940 XXIII The Drugs Act, 1940.
Do. 1942 XIX The Industrial Statistics Act, 1942.
Do. 1944 XVIII The Public Debt Act, 1944.
Central Acts of Local Application
Do. 1839 VII The Tamil Nadu Rent and Revenue Sales Act, 1839.
Do. 1849 X The Tamil Nadu Revenue Commissioner Act, 1849.
Do. 1857 VII The Chennai Uncovenanted Officers Act, 1857.
Do. 1858 I The Tamil Nadu Compulsory Labour Act, 1858.
Do. 1859 XXIV The Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859.
Do. 1873 III The Tamil Nadu Civil Courts Act, 1873.
Do. 1882 XXI The Tamil Nadu Forest Validation Act, 1882.
Madras Regulations
Do. 1802 III The Tamil Nadu Administration of Estates Regulation, 1802.
Do. 1802 XXVI The Tamil Nadu Land Registration Regulation, 1802.
Do. 1803 I The Tamil Nadu Board of Revenue Regulation, 1803.
Do. 1803 II The Tamil Nadu Collectors Regulation, 1803.
Do. 1817 VII The Tamil Nadu Endowments and Escheats Regulation, 1817.
Do. 1817 VIII The Tamil Nadu Revenue Recovery (Military Proprietors) Regulation, 1817.
Do. 1819 II The Madras State Prisoners Regulation, 1819.
Do. 1822 IX The Tamil Nadu Revenue Malversation Regulation, 1822.
Do. 1828 VII The Tamil Nadu Subordinate Collectors and Revenue Malversation (Amendment) Regulation, 1828
Do. 1829 V The Tamil Nadu Hindu Wills Regulation, 1829.
Pudukkottai, Banga-napalle and Sandur 1831 X The Tamil Nadu Sale of Minors Estates Regulation, 1831.
Madras Acts
Banganapalle 1862 IV The Tamil Nadu Enfranchised Inams Act, 1862.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1864 II The Tamil Nadu Revenue Recovery Act, 1864.
Do. 1865 VII The Tamil Nadu Irrigation Cess Act, 1865.
Banganapalle 1866 IV The Tamil Nadu Enfranchised Inams Act, 1866.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1867 I The Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1867.
Do. 1869 III The Tamil Nadu Revenue Summonses Act, 1869.
Banganapalle 1869 VIII The Tamil Nadu Inams Act, 1869.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1873 I The Tamil Nadu Wild Elephants Preservation Act 1873.
Do. 1882 V The Tamil Nadu Forest Act 1882.
Do. 1884 VI The Tamil Nadu River Conservancy Act 1884
Do. 1888 II The Tamil Nadu Places of Public Resort Act, 1888
Do. 1889 I The Tamil Nadu Village Courts Act, 1888.
Do. 1890 II The Canals and Public Ferries Act, 1890.
Do. 1891 I The Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1891
Do. 1893 V The Tamil Nadu Revenue Enquiries Act, 1893
Do. 1894 I The Tamil Nadu Board of Revenue Act, 1894
Banganapalle 1895 III The Madras Hereditary Village-Officers Act, 1895
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1898 V The Malabar Wills Act, 1898.
Do. 1899 III The Tamil Nadu Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1899
Do. 1902 I The Tamil Nadu Court of Wards Act, 1902.
Do. 1905 III The Tamil Nadu Land Encroachment Act, 1905
Do. 1911 V The Tamil Nadu Hackney Carriage Act, 1911.
Do. 1914 I The Hindu Transfers and Bequests Act, 1914.
Do. 1914 IV The Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914.
Do. 1914 VII The Madras Deputy Collectors Act, 1914.
Do. 1918 I The Mappilla Succession Act, 1918.
Do. 1918 III The Madras Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1918.
Do. 1919 III The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Pests and Diseases Act, 1919.
Do. 1919 VII The Tamil Nadu Forest (Amendment) Act, 1919.
Do. 1920 IV The Tamil Nadu Children Act, 1920.
Pudukkottai 1920 V The Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1920 VII The Tamil Nadu Town Planning Act, 1920.
Do. 1920 VIII The Tamil Nadu Elementary Education Act, 1920.
Do. 1920 XIV The Tamil Nadu Local Boards Act, 1920.
Do. 1923 V The Tamil Nadu State Aid to Industries Act, 1922.
Do. 1923 VIII The Tamil Nadu Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923.
Do. 1926 III The Tamil Nadu Nurses and Mid wives Act, 1926.
Banganapalle 1926 IV The Tamil Nadu Village Officers Restoration Act, 1926.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1926 V The Tamil Nadu Borstal Schools Act, 1925.
Do. 1927 II The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1926.
Do. 1928 VIII The Mappilla Wills Act, 1928.
Do. 1929 III The Jains Succession Act, 1928.
Do. 1930 III The Tamil Nadu Gaming Act, 1930.
Do. 1932 VII The Tamil Nadu Cotton Control Act, 1932.
Do. 1933 XX The Tamil Nadu Commercial Crops Markets Act, 1933.
Do. 1933 XXI The Tamil Nadu Nambudri Act, 1932.
Do. 1933 XXII The Tamil Nadu Marumakkattayam Act, 1932.
Do. 1934 X The Tamil Nadu Co-operative Land Mortgage Banks Act, 1934.
Do. 1935 VI The Tamil Nadu Maternity Benefit Act, 1934.
Do. 1935 VII The Tamil Nadu Debtors Protection Act, 1935.
Do. 1936 XVI The Tamil Nadu Debt Conciliation Act, 1936.
Do. 1936 XVI The Tamil Nadu Famine Relief Fund Act, 1936.
Do. 1937 III The Tamil Nadu Probation of Offenders Act, 1936.
Do. 1937 IX The Madras Payment of Salaries and Removal of Disqualifications Act, 1937.
Do. 1938 IV The Tamil Nadu Agriculturist Relief Act, 1938.
Do. 1938 V The Tamil Nadu Traffic Control Act, 1938.
Do. 1938 XXI The Removal of Civil Disabilities Act, 1938.
Do. 1939 III The Tamil Nadu Public Health Act, 1939.
Do. 1939 V The Tamil Nadu Electricity Duty Act, 1939.
Do. 1939 VI The Tamil Nadu Sales of Motor Spirit Taxation Act, 1939.
Pudukkottai, Banga-napalle and Sandur 1939 IX The Madras General Sales Tax Act, 1939.
Do. 1939 X The Tamil Nadu Entertainments Tax Act, 1939.
Do. 1939 XVII The Mappilla Marumakkatayam Act, 1938.
Banganapalle. 1939 XVIII The Madras Restoration of Village Officers (Validation) Act, 1939.
Pudukkottai, Banganapalle and Sandur 1942 XIII The Tamil Nadu Irrigation (Voluntary Cess) Act, 1942.
Do. 1943 XVI The Madras Stamp (Increase of Duties) Act, 1943.
Do. 1943 XVIII The Tamil Nadu Irrigation Works (Repairs, Improvement and Construction) Act, 1943.
Do. 1943 XXIII The Tamil Nadu Pawnbrokers Act, 1943.
Do. 1945 XIII The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Begging Act, 1945.
Do. 1947 V The Tamil Nadu Temple Entry Authorization Act, 1947.
Do. 1947 IX The Bar Councils and Legal Practitioners (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1947.
Do. 1947 XXVI The Madras Hindu Women's Rights to Property (Extension to Agricultural Land) Act, 1947.
Do. 1947 XXXI The Tamil Nadu Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act, 1947.
Do. 1947 XXXVI The Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Act, 1947.
Do. 1948 I The Tamil Nadu Home Guards Act, 1948.
Do. 1948 III The Tamil Nadu Suppression of Disturbances Act, 1948.
Do. 1948 VI The Tamil Nadu Restriction of Habitual Offenders Act, 1948.
Do. 1949 VI The Madras Hindu (Bigamy Prevention and Divorce) Act, 1949.
Do. 1949 IX The Tamil Nadu Aliyasantana Act, 1949.
Do. 1949 XIX The Tamil Nadu Irrigation Tanks (Improvement) Act, 1949.
Do. 1949 XX The Tamil Nadu Sugar Factories Control Act, 1949.
Second Schedule
[See section 14(3)]
Transitional Provisions
The Sandur Municipality constituted under the Mysore Minor Municipalities Act, 1933 and every panchayat constituted under the Sandur Village Panchayats Act, 1939 shall be deemed to be a panchayat constituted under the [Tamil Nadu] Local Boards Act, 1920.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the [Tamil Nadu] [Local Boards Act, 1920], as applied to the Sandur State (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) -
(a) (i) the members of the Sandur Municipality holding office immediately before the 1st January 1950 shall be subject to the provisions of sections 56, 57 and 59 of the said Act, be deemed to be members of the Sandur Panchayat on and from that date;
(ii) the term of office of the members of every panchayat holding office immediately before the 1st January 1950 and of the members of the panchayat referred to in sub-clause (i) shall extend to, or expire on, as the case may be, such date as the Provincial Government may fix, and the Provincial Government shall cause election to be held so that the newly elected members may come into office on the date fixed for the retirement of the old members;
(iii) the Provincial Government may, from time to time, postpone any date fixed by them under sub-clause (ii) and fix another date in lieu thereof;
(b) the president of the Sandur Municipality and of every panchayat holding office immediately before the 1st January 1950 shall, subject to the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 15 and section 43 of the said Act, hold office as president of the panchayat concerned up to, or vacate office, on the date fixed under clause (a);
(c) a meeting of the newly elected members of every panchayat shall be held on or as soon as may be after the said date on a day and at a time fixed by the Provincial Government or such other authority as may be empowered by them in this behalf for the election of the president;
(d) the term of office of the newly elected members of every panchayat or the members elected in their places at casual vacancies shall expire at the end of three years, if the date fixed under clause (a) is the first day of November and in other cases, at the end of three years from the first day of November immediately preceding such date;
(e) any vacancy in the office of president of any panchayat which is in existence on the 1st January 1950 or which occurs before the date fixed under clause (a) shall be filled by election by the panchayat;
(f) any such vacancy in the office of an appointed member of a panchayat shall be filled by appointment by the [Provincial] Government and in that of an elected member by election under the provision of the said Act on the basis of the electoral rolls in force on the 31st December 1949; and
(g) any person elected or appointed as president or as member of a panchayat under clause (e) or (f) shall hold office only up to the date fixed under clause (a).
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