State Act

The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act.

470. Central or 3[ 4[State] Government] as the case may be, may repeal by-laws.— (1) If it shall at any time appear to the 5[6[State] Government] that any by-laws should be 7[modified or] repealed either wholly or in part, 8[it] shall cause 9[its], reasons for such opinion to be communicated to the corporation and prescribe a reasonable period within which the corporation may make any presentation with regard thereto which they shall think fit. (2) After receipt and consideration of any such representation or, if in the meantime no such representation is received, after the expiry of the prescribed period, the 10[ 11[State] Government] may at any time, by notification in the 12[Official Gazette] 13[modify or] repeal such by-law either wholly or in part: 14[Provided that no by-law shall be modified or repealed in part only by the 15[ 16[State] Government] if, within the period aforesaid the corporation have objected to a modification or partial repeal thereof.] (3) The 17[modification or] repeal of a by-law under sub-section (2) shall take effect from such date as the 18[ 19[State] Government] shall in the said notification direct or, if no such date is specified, from the date of the publication of the said notification in the 1[Official Gazette], except as to anything done or suffered or omitted to be done before such date. (4) The said notification shall also be published in the local newspapers. 2[(5) The powers conferred by this section on the 3[State] Government, shall in relation to any by-law made under clause (s) of section 461, be powers of the Central Government.]