Section 137. Power of Local Government to supersede committee in case of incompetency, persistent default or excess or abuse of powers

137. Power of Local Government to supersede committee in case of incompetency, persistent default or excess or abuse of powers. 138. Disputes. 139. Annual reports and statements. 140. Estimates of receipts and expenditure. 141. Sanction to works. 142. Powers of Commissioner. 143. Additional power of Local Government to frame forms and make rules. 137. (1) If a municipal committee is not competent to perform, or persistently makes default in the performance of, the duties imposed on it by or under this or any other Act for the time being in force, or exceeds or abuses its powers, the Local Government may, with the previous approval of the Governor 1884.] Burma Municipalities. 237 (Chapter VIII.—Control.—Section 198.) Governor General in Council, by an order published, with the reasons for making it, in the local official Gazette, declare the committee to be incompetent or in default or to have exceeded or abused its powers, as the case may be, and supersede it for a period to be specified in the order. (2) When a committee is so superseded, the following consequences shall ensue:— (a) All members of the committee shall, as from the date of the order, vacate their offices as such members. (b) All powers and duties of the committee may, during the period of supersession, be exercised and performed by such person or persons as the Local Government appoints in that behalf. (c) All property vested in the committee shall, during the period of supersession, vest in the Local Government. (3) On the expiration of the period of supersession specified in the order, the committee shall be reconstituted, and the persons who vacated their offices under clause (a) shall not be deemed disqualified from being members.