Section 547: State Government may modify or repeal byelaws

(1) If it shall at any time appear to the State Government that any bye-law should be modified or repealed either wholly or in part, it shall cause its reasons for such opinion to be communicated to the 1Corporation and prescribe a reasonable period within which the 1Corporation and prescribe a reasonable period within which the 1Corporation may make any representation with regard thereto which it shall think fit.\br @s (2) After receipt and consideration of any such representation or, if in the meantime no such representation is received, after the expiry of the prescribed period, the State Government may at any time by notification in the official Gazette, modify or repeal such bye-law either wholly or in part.\br @s (3) The modification or repeal of a bye-law under sub-section (2) shall take effect from such date as the State Government shall in the said notification direct or, if no such date is specified, from the date of the publication of the said notification in the official Gazette, except as to anything done or suffered or omitted to be done before such date.\br @s (4) The said notification shall also be published in the Bulletin of the 1Corporation, if any.\br @s