(1) This act may be called the Punjab Municipal Fund Act, 2006.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on and with effect from the first day of September, 2006.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
(a) "Director" means the Director, Local Government, Punjab;
(b) "Fund" means the Punjab Municipal Fund, constituted under section 3 of this Act;
1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Punjab Government Gazette(Extraordinary), dated the 8th September, 2006, page 1739.
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Definitions.
(c) "Municipality" means an institution of selfgovernment constituted under Article 243Q of the constitution of India;
(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(e) "State Government" means the Government of the State of Punjab in the Department of Local Government; and
(f) "tax" means a tax levied and collected under the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005 (Punjab Act No. 8 of 2005).