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Effect of conversion of nagar panchayat into village panchayat. Interpretation. 98 Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. [1993 : Guj. 18 (f) all debts and obligations incurred and all contracts made by or on behalf of the nagar panchayat immediately before the said date and subsisting on the said date shall be deemed to have been incurred and made by the interim village panchayat in exercise of the powers conferred on it by or under this Act; (g) all officers and servants in the employ of the nagar panchayat immediately before the said date shall be officers and servants of the interim village panchayat 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 conditions of service to which they were entitled or subject on such date: Provided that it shall be competent to the interim village panchayat subject however to the previous sanction of the State Government, to discontinue the services of any officer or servant who, in its opinion, is not necessary or suitable to the requirements of the service of the interim village panchayat, after giving such officer or servant such notice as is required to be given by the terms of his employment and every officer or servant whose services are discontinued shall be entitled to such leave, pension, provident fund and gratuity as he would have been entitled to take or receive on being invalided out of service as if the nagar panchayat in the employ of which he was, had not ceased to exist; (h) all proceedings pending at the said date before the nagar panchayat shall be deemed to be transferred to, and continued by, the interim village panchayat; (i) all appeals pending at the said date before the nagar panchayat shall, so far as may be practicable, be disposed of as if such local area had been included in the village when they were filed; (j) all prosecutions instituted by or on behalf of the nagar panchayat and all suits or other legal proceedings institued by or against such nagar panchayat or any officer of such nagar panchayat pending at the said date shall be continued by or against the interim village panchayat as if such local area had been included in the village when such prosecutions, suits or proceedings were instituted; (k) any law (other than the Municipal Act) of any rule, bye-law, notification or order issued under such law, which was applicable to and in force in the local area immediately before it was declared as a village under clause (g) of article 243 of the Constitution, shall continue to apply to and to be in force in the local area until it is superseded. (2) The duration of the interim village panchayat shall be the same as that of the nagar panchayat had it continued to exist or till elections are held for reconstituting the interim village panchayat alongwith other village panchayats whichever is earlier. (3) All arrears of rates, taxes and fees vesting in the interim village panchayat shall be recoverable under the provisions of this Act as if the rates, taxes and fees were imposed and recoverable under this Act. (4) In other respects the provisions of this Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the interim village panchayat and its members. (5) If any difficulty arises,- (i) in the constitution of the interim village panchayat which succeeds it, or (ii) in giving effect to the provisions of this section, the State Government may by order, as occasion may require, do notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in the Municipal Act, anything which appears to it to be necessary to remove the difficulty. 1993 : Guj. 18] Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. 99