Malabar District Board (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1957

No: 6 Dated: Jan, 09 1958

THE MALABAR DISTRICT BOARD (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1957

ACT 6 OF 1958

    An Act to provide for the appointment of a Special Officer to perform the functions of tlte Malabar District Road.

    Preamble.-WHEREAS it is necessary to provide for the appointment of a Special Officer to perform the functions of the MalabarDistrict Board;

BE it enacted m the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows-

I. Short title, extent and commencemenf.-(1) This Act may be called the Malabar District Board (Temporary Provil!ions) Act, 1957.

(2) It extends to the whole of the Malabar distnct referred to in sub-sectiou (2) of section 5 of the States Reorganisation act, 1956.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Appointment nf a Special Officer to rerform the functions of the Malabar District Board.-(1) Notwithstanding any thing contained in any provision of the Madras District Boards Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), it shall be lawful for the Government to appoint, by notification the Gazette, a Special Officer to exercise the powers, discharge the duties and perform the functions of the Malabar Distnct Board, constituted under the prmcipal Act, and of Its president including his powers and duties as Executive Authority.

(2) Where a Special Officer has been appointed under subsection (1), he shall exercise the powers, discharge the duties and perform the functions of the Malabar District Board. constituted under the principal Act, and of its president including his powers and duties as Executive Authority and he shall be entitled to the same protection under the principal Act as the District Board or its president, as the case may be, whose powers he is exercising.