THE ASSAM MUNICIPAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997

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    "title": "THE ASSAM MUNICIPAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997",
    "short_title": "The Assam Municipal (Amendment) Act, 1997",
    "act_number": "XVI",
    "act_year": 1997,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1997-04-28",
    "description": "The Assam Municipal (Amendment) Act, 1997",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Preamble",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Municipal Act, 1956, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.\nIt is hereby enacted in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-",
            "footnote": "Assam Act XV of 1957.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "This Act may be called the Assam Municipal (Amendment) Act, 1997.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. (2)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It shall have the like extent as the principal Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. (3)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It shall come into force at once.",
            "footnote": "",
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            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "2",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "In the principal Act, in section 14, for clause (i), the following shall be substituted, namely :-\n\"(i) has paid any tax for at least one quarter for the year preceding the prescribed date to be paid on or before the last date of filing claims for insertion of a name in the electoral roll\".",
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            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. (1)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The Assam Municipal (Amendment) Ordinance, 1997 is hereby repealed.",
            "footnote": "Assam Ordinance No. I of 1997.",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. (2)",
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            "content": "Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Ordinance so repealed shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "199716",
        "Act Number": "XVI",
        "Enactment Date": "1997-04-28",
        "Act Year": "1997",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Municipal (Amendment) Act, 1997",
        "Department": "Legislative Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:16"
}