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(1) With effect from the date of commencement of this Act, the provisions of the West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973, the West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993, the Siliguri Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, the Asansol Municipal Corporation Act, 1990. the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, and the Durgapur Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, shall cease to apply to any area constituted, or deemed to have been constituted as a Corporation area under this Act and shall cease to be in force in such area. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, or the Asansol Municipal Corporation, or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation, or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation, constituted under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Asansol Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, as the case may be, shall, with effect from the date_ of commencement of this Act, be deemed to have been constituted under this Act, and, in respect of every such Corporation,— (a) every Councillor continuing in office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a Councillor under this Act and shall hold office as such Councillor for the unexpired portion of the term of office of the Councillor under any law in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act under which he was elected to be a Councillor or until he vacates, or is removed from, his office, or a new Councillor is elected and assumes office under this Act, whichever is earlier; (b) the Board of Councillors, if any, shall be deemed to be the Board of Councillors under this Act; (c) the Mayor, the Chairman, the Deputy Mayor, the Leader of the Opposition, the Municipal Accounts Committee, the Borough Committee, the Ward Committee, and the special committees, if any, continuing in office on the date immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to 1;e the Mayor, the Chairman, the Deputy Mayor, the Leader of the Opposition, the Municipal Accounts Committee, the Borough Committee, the Ward Committee, and the special committees, if any, under this Act; West Ben. Act IX of 2001. 142 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. MAY 29, 2008 [PART III The West Bengal Municipal Corporation Act, 2006. (Part VIII —Chapter XXV.--Miscellaneous provisions.-- Section 403.) (d) every budget passed, loan taken, assessment made, building plan sanctioned, licence or permission or sanction granted or issued, or any other similar action taken under the West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973, or the West Bengal Municipal Act, i 993. or the Siliguri Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Asansol Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act. shall, at the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to have been passed, taken, made. sanctioned, granted or issued under this Act and shall, unless altered. modified, cancelled. suspended, or withdrawn, as the case may be, under this Act, remain hi force for the period. if any. for which it was so passed, taken, made, sanctioned, granted or issued; (el all properties, movable or immovable, and all rights and interest of whatever kind, owned by, or vested in, any Grain Panchavat. or Municipality, within the area of, or owned by. or vested in, the Siliguri Municipal Corporation or the Asansol Municipal Corporation or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation, in; the case may be, under any law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, be deemed to be owned by, or vested in. the Siliguri Municipal Corporation or the Asansol Municipal Corporation or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation, as the case may be, under this Act; (I) all contracts made, or liabilities incurred, by any Gram Panchavat. Municipality, within the area of, or made, or incurred. by, the Siliguri Municipal Corporation or the Asansol Municipal Corporation or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or the Durgapur Municipal Cot poraoon, as the case may he. and 1e ally' subsisting against such Grcm PaPchavat or Munieipality cy; the Siliguri Municipal Corporaticit or tne Asansol Municipal Corporation or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation, as the case may be, immediately before the. commencement of this Act, shall, at the date of commencement of this Act, pass on to the Siiiguri Municipal Corporation or the .Asansol Municipal Corporation or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation, as the case may be; and (g) all officers and other employees appointed tinder the. West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973, or the West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993, or the Siligurt Municipal Corporation Act, 199G, or the Asansol Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Chandernagore Municipal Corporation Act, 1990, or the Durgapur Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, as the case may be, and holding office on the date immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, shall, at the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to have been appointed under this Act, and shall continue to hold office en the terms and conditions in force immediately before the commencement of this Act. PART III] THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 29, 2008 143 The West Bengal Municipal Corporation Act, 2006. (Schedule I.) SCHEDULE I Parts of plant or of combination of plant and machinery not to be excluded in determining the annual value of a holding comprising land and building. [See section 119(4).] The following parts of a plant or combination of plant and machinery, whenever, and only to such extent as, any part is, or is in the nature of, a building or structure:— Acid Concentrators; Bins and Hoppers; Blast Furnaces; Burners, Forges, Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens and Stoves, Chambers; Absorption of gases or fumes; Aerographing and Spraying; Bleaching; Chemical Reaction; Conditioning or Treatment; Cooling; Dyeing; Dust or Fume Collecting; Fibre Separation (Wool Carbonising); Fuming; Impregnating; Refrigerating; Sandblasting; Sterilising; Sulphuric Acid; Chimneys; Cooking Ovens; Condensers and Scrubbers— Acid, Alkali, Gas, Oil, Tar; Conveyor Gantries; Cooling Ponds; Crane Gantries; Coupol as; Economisers; Elevators and Hoists; Evaporators; Fan Drifts; Floating, Docks and Pontoons with any Bridges or Gangways, not of a temporary nature, used in connection therewith; Flues; Flumes and Conduits; Foundations, Settings, Gantries, Supports, Platforms and Stagings for plant and machinery; Gas— Holders, Producers and Generators, Purifiers and Cleaners; 144 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 29, 2008 PART HI] The West Bengal Municipal Corporation Act, 2006. (Schedule II.) Head Gear— Mine, Quarry and Pit, Hydraulic Accumulators, Well; Pits, Beds and. Bays— Casting, Cooling, Drop, Inspecting or Testing, Liming, Soaking, Tanning or other treatment settling; Rack; Refuse, Destructors and Incinerators; Restors; Ship Construction and Repair; Cradles; Grids; Slipways; Uprights; Silos; Stages, Staithes and Platforms for loading, unloading and handling materials; Stills; Superheaters; Tanks; Towers for— Absorption of gases or fumes, Chemicals Reaction, Cooling, Oil Refining and Condensing Treatment, Water, Transporter Gantries, Transverser and Turntables, Vats, Weighbridges, Wheles Masts. SCHEDULE II Professions, trades and callings. [See section 141(1).] Every certificate of enlistment shall be granted under one or other of the classes in the second column of the following table:— Serial Classes No. (1) (2)