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If any local area consisting of one or more PiTha* r e v e n u e villages iQ respect of which a Panchayat has area into die been constituted, is included in the City of Gauhati City of Gau- under the provisions of this Act, the following conse- hati. quences shall ensue, namely: — fa) the panchayat of such local area (herein after referred to as the Panchayat) shall cease to have jurisdiction over such area ; (b) the unexpended balance of the Panchayat fund and the property (including arrears of rates, taxes and fees) belonging to the Pan chayat and all rights and powers which prior to such notification vested in the Panchayat shall, subject to all charges and liabilities affecting the same, vest in the Corporation of the City of Gauhati herein- * after referred to as the Corporation ; (c) any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law or form, made, issued, imposed or granted under the Assam Panchayat Act, 1959 immediately before the said date in respect of the said local area shall continue to be in force and be deemed to have been made, issued, imposed or granted under this Act, until it is superseded or modified by any appointment, notification, notice, tax, order, scheme, licence, permission, rule, bye-law or form made, issued, imposed or granted under this Act. 236 (d) all budget estimate assessments, assessment lists, valuations or measurements, made or authenticated under the Assam Panchayat Act, 1959 immediately before the said date in respect of the said local area shall be deemed to have been made or authenticated under this A ct; e) all debts and obligations incurred and all contracts made by or on behalf of the pan chayat immediately before the said date and subsisting on the said date shall be deemed to have been incurred and made by the Corporation in exercise of the power conferred on it by this Act ; - ■ (f) all officers and staff in the employ of the Panchayat immediately before the said date shall be officers and Btaff of the Corpora tion under this Act and shall, until other provision is made in accordance with the provisions of this Act, receive salaries and allowances and be subject to the condition of service to which they were entitled or subject immediately befote such date : Provided that it shall be competent to the Corpo ration subject to the previous sanction of the Government to discontinue the services of any officer or staff who in its opinion is not neces sary or suitable for the requirements of the municipal service after giving such officer or employee such notice as is required to be given by the terms of his employment and every officer or employee whose services are dispensed with shall be entitled to such leave, pension, * provident fund and gratuity as he would have been entitled to take or receive on being inva lided out of service, as if the Panchayat, in the employ of which he was, had not ceased to exist ; 'g) all proceedings pending on the said date before the Panchayat shall be deemed to be transferred to and shall be continued before the Corporation ; I 257 (h) all appeals pending before any authority shall, so far as may be practicable, be disposed of as if the said local areas had been included in the City of Gauhati when they were filed ; (i) all prosecutions instituted by or on behalf of the Panchayat and all suits or other legal proceedings instituted by or against the Panchayat or any officer of the Pan chayat pending on the said date shall be continued by or against the Corporation as if the said local areas had been in cluded in the City of Gauhati when such prosecutions, suits or proceedings were instituted; (j) all arrears of rates, taxes and fees vesting in the Corporation shall, notwithstanding that such rates and fees cannot be levied under this Act, be recoverable in the same manner as a tax recoverable under this Act ; and (k) until the reconstitution of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of this Act (notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in section 5 of this Act) such number of persons ordinarily resident in the local area included in the City of Gauhati who are nominated by the Government shall be additional Councillors of the Corporation. Effect of