(1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Government Short title Townships (Extension of Civic Amenities) Act, 1975. and extent.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or Definitions.
context,—
(a) "Administrator" means an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Collector, appointed by the State Government to carry out the purposes of this Act:
Provided that there may be different Administrators for different areas;
(b) "civic amenity includes roads, buildings, water-supply, street-lighting, drainage, conservancy and sewerage, sanitastion, maintenance of public health, prevention or abatement of nuisance, registration of births and deaths, parks, gardens, recreation grounds, schools, hospitals and dispensaries, markets, work-shops, warehouses, godowns, 201 The West Bengal Government Townships (Extension of Civic Amenities) Act, 1975.
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factories, offices, industrial or commercial establishments, or any other convenience which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be an amenity;
(c) "Government Township" means an area which is declared as such by the State Government by notification published in the Official Gazette.
Application of enactments to Government Townships.
Officers and employees
3. Whenever, in the opinion of the State Government, it is necessary to make provisions for all or any of the purposes of this Act in respect of a Government Township, the State Government may, by order to be published in the Official Gazette, extend to such Government Township with such incidental or consequential modifications as the State Government may consider necessary—
(a) any provision of the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951, the West Ben.
Bengal Municipal Act, 1932, or the Calcutta Metropolitan AXXetxill Water and Sanitation Authority Act, 1966, of 1951.
(b) any provision of any other Act which applies to the Ben. Act XV of Corporation of Calcutta or to a Municipality, or 1932.
(c) any rule or by-law in force in such Corporation or AweetsVnein.
Municipality. of 1966.