Section 70 · Functions and powers of Standing Committees and Subjects Committees

Each Council shall make by-laws to provide for the following matters :— (a) allotment of subjects to the Standing Committee and the Subjects Committees (if any): Provided that, 3[the subject of finance and welfare of conservancy staff and where a Transport Committee is not appointed the subject of transport undertaking also, shall be allotted to the Standing Committee,] and the subjects of fairs and pilgrims to the Sanitation, Medical and Public Health Committee, and where such Committee is not appointed to the Standing Committee; Section 26 of Mah. 21 of 1992, reads as under :— “26. Reconstitution of Committees.— Where, by virtue of the amendments made to the relevant municipal law whereby the number of member on various committees of the Municipal Corporation or, as the case may be, the Municipal Council has been increased, arrangements shall, as soon as may be practicable, be made to reconstitute the committees with the increased number of its members, and notwithstanding anything contained in the relevant municipal law,— (a) the term of office of the members who come to hold office as such members against the increased number of members on the committee shall expire with the expiry of term of office of the members holding office as such member on the committee on the date of its reconstitution as aforesaid; (b) no act or proceeding of any committee shall be deemed to be invalid at any time merely on the ground that no members against the increased seats were available to take office during the period from the date of commencement of this Act and ending on the date of reconstitution of the committee; and (c) the validity of such act or proceeding shall not be questioned in any court or before any authority or officer merely on the ground aforesaid. Explanation.— The expression “relevant municipal law”,— (a) in relation to the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay means, the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act (Bom. III of 1888); (b) in relation to the Corporation of the City of Nagpur means, the City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948 (C. P. and Berar II of 1950); (c) in relation to the Municipal Corporation of any other City means, the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 (Bom. LIX of 1949) ; (d) in relation to a Municipal Council means, the **Maharashtra Municipalities Act, 1965 (Mah. XL of 1965)”. **Now the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagpur Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965. (b) extent of powers of the Council under this Act or any other law for the time being in force to be exercised by the Standing Committee, and the Subjects Committee (if any), in respect of the subjects allotted to such Committees.