(1) The Government may by notification in the Official Gazette
(a) alter the limits of a municipal area so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom such local area as may be specified in the notification;
(b) amalgamate two or more municipal areas so as to form one municipal area;
(c) split up any municipal area into two or more municipal areas;
(d) declare that the whole of any local area comprising a municipal area shall cease to be a municipal area:
Provided that no such notification shall be issued by the Government under any of the clauses of this sub-section without consulting the Municipal Council or Councils and other local authorities concerned.
(2) Prior to the publication of' a notification under sub-section (1), the procedure prescribed in sub-sections (3), (4) and (5) of section 3 shall mutatis mutandis be followed.
30[(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any of the provisions of this Act or any other law, or Judgement, decree or order of the court, a Municipal area which is deemed to be a Panchayat in terms of section 2 of the Goa Municipalities (Amendment) Act, 280 30Sub section (3) and (4) inserted by the Amendment Act 1 of 2001, thereafter by the Amendment Act 14 of 2006 both sections substituted by the new sub-section (3).
Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. III) – 281 – Municipality Act 2001 (Goa Act 1 of 2001) shall be a Municipal area from the 28th day of April, 2006, and all actions taken by or against such deemed Panchayat shall be deemed to have been taken by or against the Municipal Council of such Municipal area.]
(2) Municipal Authorities and Establishment of Councils.