(1) If, in respect of any matters specified in section 240, the Municipality has failed to make any bye-laws, or if the bye-laws made by it are not, in the opinion of the Government, adequate, the Government may make rules providing for such matters, as they may think fit.
(2) The rules made under this section may add to, alter, or cancel any bye-laws made by the Municipal Council.
(3) If any provision of bye-laws made by the Municipal Council is repugnant to any provision of a rule made under this section, the rule shall prevail, and the bye-laws, to the extent it is repugnant, be void.
Power to amend Schedules.
Power of the Council to make Bye-laws.
Power of Government to make rules in lieu of Bye-laws.
180 [Act No. 11 of 2019] Power to give retrospective effect to certain Bye-laws.
242. Bye-laws with regard to the drainage of, and supply of water to, buildings and water-closets, earth-closets, privies, ash-pits and cess-pools in connection with buildings, and the keeping of water-closets supplied with sufficient water for flushing, may be made so as to affect buildings erected before passing of the bye-laws or this Act.
Conditions precedent to making Bye-laws.
243. The Municipal Council shall, before making or altering bye-laws, publish a draft of the proposed bye-laws and alterations, together with a notice specifying a date at or after which such draft will be taken into consideration, and shall, before making the bye-laws or alterations, receive and consider any objection or suggestion, which may be made in respect of such draft by any person interested therein, before the date so specified.
Penalty for breaches of Bye laws.
244. In making bye-laws the Municipal Council may provide that a breach of the bye-laws shall be punishable with fine specifying the same, not inconsistent with any other provision or existing rules.
PUBLICATION OF RULES, BYE-LAWS AND REGULATIONS Copies of Act, Rules and Bye laws to be made available online.
245. Complete copies of the Act, bye-laws and the rules framed by the Government and the Municipal Authorities, shall be made available online in English or in the main language of the district.
PENALTIES General provisions regarding penalties.