The Balugaon NAC (Extension of Term of Office Validation) Act, 1988

ORISSA ACT 7 OF 1988
THE BALUGAON NOTIFIED AREA COUNCIL (EXTENSION OF
TERM OF OFFICE AND VALIDATION) ACT, 1988
[Received the assent of the Governor on the 5th April 1988, first published in an
extraordinary issue of the Orissa Gazette dated the 5th April 1988]
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE TERM OF OFFICE OF THE
BALUGAON NOTIFIED AREA COUNCIL TO VALIDATE THE ACTIONS OF THE
SAID NOTIFIED AREA COUNCIL AND FOR MATTERS INCIDENTAL THERETO.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Thirty-ninth Year of the
Republic of India as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Balugaon Notified Area Council (Extension of
Term of Office and Validation) Act, 1988.
(2) This section and sub -section (2) of section 3 shall be deemed to have  come
into force on the 22nd day of February, 1988 and the remaining provisions of this Act shall be
deemed to have come into force on the 10th day of September, 1987.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) “Municipal Act” means the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950;
(b) “Notified Area Council” means a Notified Area Council constituted
under the Municipal Act;
(c) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in
the Municipal Act shall have the same meaning as respectively
assigned to them under that Act.
3. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Municipal Act, the State
Government may, by notification, direct that the term of office of the Councillors of the
Balugaon Notified Area Council as extended by the direction  issued by the State Government
under sub -section (6) of section 41 of the Municipal Act and last published with the
notification of the State Government in the Housing and Urban Development Department No.
14276, dated the 2 nd April, 1987 be further extended from  the 10th day of September, 1987 to
the 14th day of September, 1988.
(2) All actions taken and orders passed by the Balugaon Notified Area Council in
the district of Puri and by its Chairman during the period from the 10 th day of September,
1987 to the 21 st day of February, 1988 (both the days inclusive) in the belief or purported
belief that the term of office of the Councillors was validly extended shall, for all intents and
purposes, be deemed to have been validly taken and passed and no such action or or der shall
Short title
and
commencem
ent.
Extension of
term of office
and
validation of
actions taken
by the
Balugaon
Notified Area
Council and
its Chairman.
Definitions.
Orissa Act 23 of
1950.

be questioned in any Court of law or otherwise open to challenge merely on the ground that
the term of office of the Councillors was not validly extended.
4. On extension of the term of office of the Councillors of the Balugaon Notified
Area Council by a direction issued under section 3,-
(a) the provision  contained in sub -section (4) of section 41 of the
Municipal Act shall apply to the said Notified Area Council, with
effect from the date of expiry of the term of office of the Councillors
thereof;
(b) the election or nomination, as the case may be, of the Councillors as
for reconstitution of the said Notified Area Council shall be held in
accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Act on such date,
not being later than the 14 th day of September,  1988 as may be
directed by the State Government; and
(c) the Notified Area Council so reconstituted shall, for all purposes, be
deemed to have been constituted under and be governed by the
provisions of the Municipal Act and rules and notifications made
there under.
5. (1) The Balugaon Notified Area Council (Extension of Term of Office and
Validation) Ordinance, 1988 is hereby repealed.
    (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken (including any
notification issued) under the Or dinance so repealed shall be deemed to have been done,
taken or issued under this Act.
Conseque-
nces of
extension
of term of
Office.
Repeal and
savings. Orissa
ordinance
No. 1 of
1988.

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