2. (1) With effect from the commencement of this Act, the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Samitis and Zila Parishads Adhiniyam, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the said Adhiniyam), shall, for a period of [four and a half years] or until the reconstitution of the said Zila Parishads under section 22 of the said Adhiniyam, whichever is earlier, have effect in relation to each of the Zila Parishads subject to the following provisions, namely-
(a) Notwithstanding anything in the said Adhiniyam, the Adhyaksha, Upadhyaksha and members of the Zila Parishad shall cease to hold their respective offices ;
(b) all powers, functions and duties of the Zila Parishad, in Adhyaksha, Upadhyaksha and Committees shall be vested in and be exercised performed and discharged by the District Magistrate and the District Magistrate shall be deemed in law to be the Zila Parishad, Adhyaksha, Upadhyaksha or the Commiitee, as the occasion may require;
(c) Subject to any general or special orders of the State Government, the District Magistrate may in respect of all or any of the powers conferred on him by the last preceding clause delegate subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose the powers so conferred to any person or authority to be specified by him in that behalf;
(d) the District Magistrate may in respect of all or any of the powers conferred on him by clause (b) consult such body or committee as may be constituted by the State Government in that behalf;
(e) the State Government may from time to time by notification in the Gazette make such incidental and consequential prvisions, including provisions for adapting modifying or suspending in whole or in part the operation of any provision of the said Adhiniyam, but not affecting the substance, as may appear to it to be necessary or desirable for any of the foregoing and connected purposes.
(2) Every notification issued under clause (e) of sub-section (1) shall, as soon as may be after it is issued be laid before each House of the State Legislature, while it is in session, for a total period of not less than fourteen days extending in its one session or more than one successive sessions and shall, unless some later date is appointed take effect from the date of its publication in the Gazette, subject to such modifications or annulments as the two Houses of the Legislature may during the said period agree to make; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.