THE  KERALA  MUNICIPALITY  (FIFTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005[1]

(ACT 35 OF 2005)

An Act further to amend the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994.

            Preamble.-WHEREAS, it is expedient further to amend the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

            BE it enacted in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

            1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Municipality Act (Fifth Amendment) Act, 2005.

                        (2) It shall come into force at once.

            2.  Amendment of Section 447.- In the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994), for sub-section (4) and (5) of section 447, the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-

                 “ (4) The period of licence granted under sub-section (3) and (3A) or a licence deemed to have been granted under sub-section (6) shall unless a date is specified therein, expire on completion of three years from the date of its issue.

                   (5) Every application for any licence or permission or for its renewal under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder, shall be made not less than thirty days and not more than ninety days before the earliest day on which such licence or permission is required or the licence expires.

                   (6) If the order on an application for any licence or permission are not communicated to the applicant within thirty days after the receipt of the application by the Secretary or within such longer period as may be prescribed in any class of cases, the application shall be deemed to have been allowed for the period required in the application subject to the Act, rules and bye-laws and all conditions which would have been ordinarily imposed.”        

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