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| (1)A Development Council shall not perform or discharge any duty or function imposed on or assigned to it by or under this Act, within the administrative limits of any Municipality or any Urban area situated within the administrative district for which such Development Council is constituted, where such duty or function has been imposed on or assigned by the Municipal Councils Ordinance, the Urban Councils Ordinance or any other written law, to any Municipal Council or Urban Council constituted for that Municipality or Urban area, by or under the Municipal Councils Ordinance or the Urban Councils Ordinance, as the case may be. |
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| (2) With effect from such date as may be determined by the Minister by Order published in the Gazette -
| | (a) the Development Council shall exercise, perform and discharge such powers, duties and functions as were exercised, discharged or performed by a Town Council or a Village Council constituted for any town or village area situated within the administrative district for which a Development Council has been constituted or by any person who is administering the affairs of any such Council, under the provisions of the Town Councils Ordinance or the Village Councils Ordinance, as the case may be, and accordingly any reference in those Ordinances or in any other written law to any Town Council or Village Council shall be deemed to be a reference to a Development Council ; | | |
| | (b) all property whether movable or immovable and the assets and liabilities of any such Town Council or Village Council shall be deemed to be the property and the assets and liabilities of such Development Council; | | |
| | (c) the employees of such Town Council or Village Council, who are members of the Local Government Service established by the Local Government Service Law, No. 16 of 1974, shall continue to be members of such Service ; and all existing posts in Town Councils and Village Councils shall continue as posts in the Development Councils and such posts shall not be abolished except with the approval of the Minister; | | |
| | (d) all other employees of such Town Councils or Village Councils shall be officers and servants of the district service established under section 47 on terms and conditions not less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to the date determined under this section ; | | |
| | (e) all rules made by the Minister under the Town Councils Ordinance and the Village Councils Ordinance, and all by laws made by such Town Council or such Village Council, and in force in any area immediately prior to the date determined under this section, shall, mutatis mutandis, be deemed to be by-laws made by such Development Council and any officer administering the affairs of such Town Council or Village Council shall, with effect from the date determined under this section, cease to ion as such officer. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts