(1) For the purpose of administering the municipal affairs of the Guruvayur Township, the Government shall, by a notification in the Gazette, constitute a committee to be called the Guruvayur Township Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Township * Received the assent of the Governor on the 22nd day of December, 1961 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 149 dated 26th December, 1961.
1. Vide S.R.O. No.28/62 dated 23.01.1962 appoint the 26th January, 1962 to be the date on which the Act, except section 1, came into force.
3 Committee) consisting of seven members who shall be appointed by the Government. Of the seven members aforesaid, four shall be non-officials.
(2) The Government shall appoint—
(a) one of the members of the Township Committee to be its Chairman; and
(b) another person(not being a member of the Township Committee) to be its Executive Officer.
(3) The Township Committee shall be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal, and subject to any restrictions or qualifications imposed by or under this or any other enactment, shall be vested with the capacity of suing and being sued in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and transferring property, movable or immovable, of entering into contracts, and of doing all things necessary, proper or expedient for the purposes for which it is constituted.