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Application of the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (Act II of 1956)- (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided herein, all the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955(Act II of 1956) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Act) including the provisions relating to the levy and collection of any tax or fee except Chapter V and sections 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385 and 387 in Chapter XI thereof are hereby extended to and shall apply mutatis mutandis to a Corporation constituted under this Act and the said Act shall, in relation to the Corporation be read and construed as if the provisions of the said Act had formed part of this Act. (2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955, to the Corporation, the Government may, by notification, make such adaptations and modifications of the said Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder whether by way of repealing, amending or suspending any provisions thereof, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon the said Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to the Corporation subject to the adaptations and modifications so made. (3) Notwithstanding that no provision or insufficient provision has been made under sub-section (2) for the adaptation of the provisions of the said Act, or the rules made thereunder, any Court, Tribunal or Authority required or empowered to enforce these provisions may, for the purpose of facilitating their application to the Corporation, construe these provisions in such manner, without affecting the substance, as may necessary or proper regard to the matter before the Court, Tribunal or Authority. 1[14A. General provision for reservation of office of Mayor in the Corporations of the State - Notwithstanding anything contained in sub- section (2) of Section 1 of this Act, out of the total number of offices of Mayor of the Corporations constituted either under this Act or under any other law relating the Municipality, Corporations for the time being in force in the State, the Government shall, subject to such rules as may be prescribed, by notification reserve,- (i) such number of offices to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as may be determined subject to the conditions that the number of offices so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of offices to be filled in the State as the population of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, as the case may be, in all the Corporations of the State bears to the total population in the Corporations of the State and such offices may be allotted by rotation to different Corporations in the State; 2[Provided that where the proportion of the population of the Scheduled Castes, or Scheduled Tribes as the case may be, in all the corporations of the State does not constitute required proportion as prescribed enabling them for reservation, atleast one office of the Mayor shall be reserved for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes as the case may be, without reference to the said required proportion.] (ii) one-third of the offices to the Backward Classes and such offices may be allotted by rotation to different Corporations in the State; (iii) not less than one-third of the total number of offices reserved under clauses (i) and (ii) for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or as the case may be, the Backward Classes; and (iv) not less than one-third (including the number of offices reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes) of the total number of offices to be filled in the State for women, and such offices may be allotted by rotation to different Corporations in the State. 3[14.B Constitution of a Municipal Corporation Service – (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or the Rules made thereunder, the Government may after consulting all the Municipal Corporations, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, constitute any class of officers or employees of the Municipal Corporations into a Municipal Corporation service for the State. (2) Upon issue of a notification under sub-section (1), the Government shall have power to make rules to regulate the classification, methods of recruitment, conditions of service, pay and allowances and discipline and conduct of the Municipal Corporation Service thereby constituted and such rules may vest jurisdiction in relation to such service in the Government or in such other authority or authorities as may be prescribed therein.]