Act Number: 66

Act Name: The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957

Year: 1957

Enactment Date: 1957-12-28

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Municipal Government of Delhi.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 500: Councillors and municipal officers and employees to be public servants.
    1 [Every Councillor and every person referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 3, the Commissioner,] 2 *** 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).
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