(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette declare that with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification, the Board shall be dissolved:
Provided that no such declaration shall be made by the State Government unless, a resolution to that effect has been moved in and passed by the State Legislature.
(2) With effect from the date specified in the notification under sub-section (1)-
(a) all properties, funds and dues which are vested in or realizable by the Board shall vest in and be realizable by the State Government;
(b) all liabilities enforceable against the Board shall be enforceable against the State Government to the extent of the properties, funds and dues vested in and realized by the State Government.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the State Government in respect of loans or debentures guaranteed under sub-section (5) of section 59.
Penalty for obstructing exercise of powers under Chapter VI.
Authority for prosecution.
Members, officers and servants of the Board to be public servants.
XLV of 1860.
Protection of action taken under this Act.
Government's power to give directions to Board.
Default in performance of duty.
Dissolution of the Board.
80. Save as otherwise expressly provided in the Gujarat Housing Board Act, 1961 the Gujarat Housing Board constituted under that Act shall not, with effect on and from the commencement of this Act, frame or execute a Housing scheme in any rural area:
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the powers of that Board to complete any Housing scheme in any rural area which may have been partly executed by that Board in such area before such commencement.
----------------------- 1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons and report of Select Committee, see Gujarat Government Gazette, Extraordinary Part V, dated August 1, 1972, page 131.
This Act was assented to by the President on the 2nd November, 1972.
2 This portion of the proviso was substituted by Guj. 9 of 1985, s.2.
3 The words “or the State Government” were deleted by Guj. 9 of 1985, s.3(1).
4 Sub-section (1A) was inserted by Guj. 9 of 1985, s.3(2).
5 Sub-section (1) was substituted by Guj. 1 of 1999, s.3, Sch Sr. No. 8.
Guj. XXVIII of
1961.
Restriction on operation of Gujarat Housing Board.