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Declaration of intention to include or exclude any Urban area from the operation of the Act: (1) The Government after consultation with the Municipal Councilor Town Council as the case maybe, by a notification, declare its intention: (a) to include within the Municipal Council area or Town Council area any area adjacent there to or to exclude from the Municipal Council area or Town Council area, any area comprised therein or (c) to withdraw any Urban area from the operation of this Act. (2) Every such notification shall define the limits of the area to which it relates. (3) A copy of the notification shall be published and shall also be affixed in a conspicuous place in the Office of the Deputy Commissioner and such other place as the Government may direct. (4) On the expiry of a period of 30 (thirty) days from the date of publication of the notification referred to in sub-section (1) and after consideration of the objections if any submitted, the Government may by a notification: (a) include within the Municipal Council area or Town Council area, any area adjacent there to or (b)exclude from the Municipal Council area or Town Council area, any area comprised therein or (c) withdraw any urban area from the operation of this Act. (5) Where any area within the territorial jurisdiction of any local authority is constituted as Municipal Council or Town Council or included in such Municipal Council area or Town Council area: (a) the provisions of this Act except as the Government by a notification otherwise direct and in force in Municipal Council Areas or Town Council Areas shall apply; (b) the Government may by a notification issue such orders as it may deem fit: (1) as to the transfer to the Municipal Council or Town Council or disposal otherwise of the assets or institutions of such local authority in the area constituted or included and 6 as to the discharge of the liabilities, if any, of such local authority relating to such assets or institutions. (6) Where any area is excluded from the Municipal Council area or Town Council area and included in the area within the territorial jurisdiction of any other local authority: the provisions of this Act shall cease to apply and shall cease to be imposed in the area so excluded. (b) The Government may by a notification issue such orders as it may deem fit: as to the transfer of such local authority or disposal otherwise of the assets or institutions of Municipal Council or Town Council and as to discharge of liabilities if any, of such Municipal Council or Town Council relating to such assets or institutions. (7) Upon the issue of the notification under sub-section (4) withdrawing any urban area altogether from the operation of this Act: (a) the provision of this Act and all notifications, rules, regulations, orders, directions and powers issued, made or conferred thereunder shall cease to apply to such area. (b) the Municipal fund and also other property vested in the Municipal Council or Town Council shall vest in the Government and the liabilities of the Municipal Council or Town Council shall be transferred to the Government; (c) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued to or incurred by the Municipal Council or Town Council immediately before such withdrawal, shall vest in or be enforceable against the Government. (d) all suits, prosecutions and other legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against the Municipal Council or Town Council, may be continued or instituted by or against the Government. CHAPTER —II MUNICIPAL COUNCIL