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The powers and duties of the said board shall be as follows, namely;— (a) to examine and recommend schemes for the organization, co-ordination and expansion of primary education and for the correlation of primary education with the system of education as a whole in the 120[area to which this Act extends]; (b) to advise the 118[State] Government generally on all matters connected with primary education; (c) to exercise such other powers and to perform soon other duties as may be prescribed. 121[59A (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, with effect from such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette appoint, the existing Board of Primary Education shall stand dissolved and the president and members thereof shall be deemed to have vacated their office; and there shall be constituted a Board of Primary Education for the area to which this Act extends, consisting of a president and such number of other members, including a Secretary, as the State Government may think fit to nominate. (2) The members so nominated shall, as far as may be, include persons who were members of the Board so dissolved and are, on the date on which such nomination is made, ordinarily residing in the area to which this Act extends. (3) The president and other members nominated under sub-section (1) shall hold office upto and inclusive of the 122[31st day of December 1961] or a Board is duly constituted under section 58 whichever is earlier. (4) The provisions contained in sub-sections (3), (4),(5)and (8) of section 58 shall mutatis mutandis apply to the members of the Board constituted under this section. (5) The Board so constituted shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the Board of Primary Education under this Act.] 123[(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) on the date of the coming into force of this Act in the Saurashtra area and the Kutch area of the State, the Board constituted under this section and existing on the said date shall be deemed to be constituted for the whole of the State : Provided that, having regard to the extension of the jurisdiction of the Board as aforesaid, the State Government may nominate such number of additional members on the Board as it may think fit.] CHAPTER XI. MISSELLANEOUS. 124[60. (1) Subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified,— (i) the State Government may delegate any of its powers or duties under Powers and duties of 119* board. Transitory and special provision an account of re- organisation of Bombay State. Delegation The Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947 36 of 43 this Act or the rules made thereunder to any officer or authority subordinate to it; and (ii) the Director may also, with the previous sanction of the State Government, delegate any of his powers or duties under this Act or the rules made thereunder or delegated to him by the State Government under clause (i) to any officer subordinate to him. (2) Nothing in this section shall derogate from the right of the State Government of the Director to exercise any or all of the powers or duties hereby delegated by it or him, as the case may be, to any subordinate officer or authority.]