(1) For the purpose of the administration of the municipal affairs of Howrah there shall be constituted a Corporation as provided in section 4 and such Corporation shall, by the name of the Municipal Corporation of Howrah, be a body corporate and have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall, by the said name, sue ,and be sued.
(2) The properties along with all rights therein of whatsoever description used, enjoyed or possessed, immediately before the date of constitution of the Corporation, by the Commissioners of the municipality of Howrah or Bally, as constituted under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1932, or by any Union Board or Panchayat, as the case may be, included within the area of Flowrah shall, on and from such date, become vested in the Corporation.
(3) All rights, liabilities and obligations of the Commissioners of the said municipality of Howrah•or Bally and of the said Union Board or Panchavat, as the case may be, in relation to any matter provided for in or under this Act shall, in so far as they were subsisting immediately before the date of constitution of the Corporation, be enforceable by or against the Corporation.
(;coati.. 4. (1) The Corporation shall consist of the following ton members, namely : — of' the Corpora- (a) fifty-six Councillors of whom—
(i) fifty-five shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 5, and
(ii) one shall be the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Improvement of Howrah (ex-officio);
and
(b) five Aldermen to be elected by the Councillors as provided in section 9 of the Calcutta Act.
(2) As soon as may be after the completion of the first general election of the Councillors and the election of the Aldermen, the State Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that the Corporation has been constituted, and the Corporation shall thereupon be deemed to be duly constituted on and from the date of such notification.
invivan 5. (1) The State Government shall, by notification in et the Official Gazette, divide the area of Howrah into fifty-five Etowrah wards. into The Ccaporal Ben.
Act XV of 1932.
K2) Each such ward shall, for the purpose of election of Councillors referred to in sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of subsection (1) of section 4, constitute a constituency and each such constituency shall elect one Councillor.
wards.
West Ben. Act XXXIII of 1951.
The Howrah Municipal Act, 1965. 3 XVII of 1965.]
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CHAPTER III.
Application of Act and Rules.