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Section 8. Duration of Corporation

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

Act no. 2 of 19591959In forceUttarakhand (State Act)

[8- (1) A Corporation, unless sooner dissolved under section 538, shall contuse for five years from the date appointed for its first meting and no longer. (2) An election to constitute a Corporation shall be completed— (a) before the expiry of its duration specified in sub-section (1); (b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its dissolution under section 538; Provided that where the remainder of the period for which the dissolved Corporate would have continued is les than six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election for constituting the Corporation for such period. (3) A Corporation constituted upon its dissolution before the expiration of its duration shall continue only for the reminder of the period for which the dissolved Corporation would have contused under sub-section (1), had it not been so dissolved.]3 [(4) Where the terms of a Nagar Nigam has expired or a new Nagar Nigam Board has not been constituted, then until the due constitution of the new Board— (a) all powers, functions and duties of the Nagar Nigam, its Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Ward Committee, Executive committee, Development committee and Other Committees, constituted under sub-section (e) of section 5, shall be vested in and be exercised, performed and discharged by an officer appointed in this behalf by the State Government (hereinafter referred to as the Administrator) and he/she shall be deemed in law to be the Administrator, Nagar Nigam or the Committees, as the occasion may require; (b) such salary and allowances of the Administrator, as the State Government may, by general or special order in that behalf, fix shall be paid out of Nagar Nigam Fund; (c) the State Government may, from time to time by Notification in the Gazette, make such incidental or consequential provisions, which include provisions for adapting, altering or modifying any provision of this Act, without affecting the substance, as may appear to it to be necessary or expedient for carrying out the purpose of this section : Provided that the term of Administrator, appointed under this section shall not exceed six months or till the constitution of new Nagar Nigam Board, whichever is earlier.]7