Section 14. Consequences of establishment of municipal committee where municipal committee under Act VII of 1874 exists

14. Consequences of establishment of municipal committee where municipal committee under Act VII of 1874 exists. 14. When a municipal committee comes into existence under section 13 for a municipality constituted under this Act, and that municipality is or comprises within its limits a local area which is a municipality under the British Burma Municipal Act, 1874, the following consequences shall ensue, namely:— (a) the said Act shall cease to apply to the local area; (b) the municipal committee (if any) constituted under that Act for the local area (hereinafter called the old committee) shall cease to exist; (c) all property vested in the old committee shall for the purposes of this Act vest in the committee constituted under this Act (hereinafter called the new committee), subject to all rights (if any) existing over, and all debts, liabilities and obligations (if any) affecting, that property; (d) every right and liability belonging to or incurred by the old committee may be enforced by and against the new committee in like manner as it might have been enforced by Time for committees coming into existence. Consequences of establishment of municipal committee where municipal committee under Act VII of 1874 exists. 188 Burma Municipalities. [ACT XVII (Chapter III.—Organization of Municipal Committees.—Sections 15-17.) and against the old committee if this Act had not been passed; (c) a Government officer employed by the old committee at the time when the new committee comes into existence shall be deemed to be similarly employed by the new committee and shall not be dismissed from that employment without the sanction of the Local Government; and (f) the new committee shall be substituted for the old committee in all legal proceedings by or against the old committee pending at the time when the new committee comes into existence.