Section 500
Councillors and municipal officers and employees to be public servants.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Municipal Government of Delhi.
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[Every
Councillor and every person referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3, the Commissioner,]
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*** and every municipal officer and other municipal employee shall be deemed to be a public servant
within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), and in the definition of legal
remuneration in section 161 of that Code the word Government shall, for the purpose of this section,
be deemed to include 3[4[the Corporation]].
Notes
1. Subs. by s. 127, ibid., for Every councillor and alderman, the Commissioner, the General Manager (Electricity),
(w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
2. The words and brackets , the General Manager (Transport) omitted by Act 71 of 1971, s. 7(b) and the Second Schedule (w.e.f. 3-11-1971).
3. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
4. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
2. The words and brackets , the General Manager (Transport) omitted by Act 71 of 1971, s. 7(b) and the Second Schedule (w.e.f. 3-11-1971).
3. Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
4. Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).