Section 5. (1) Any inhabitant of a municipality or local area in respect of which a notification has been publi

155. (1) Any inhabitant of a municipality or local area in respect of which a notification has been published in the official Gazette under section 154 may, if he objects to the alteration proposed, submit his objection in writing to the Local Government within six weeks from the publication of the notification in the official Gazette, and the Local Government shall take his objection into consideration. (2) When six weeks from the publication of the notification in the official Gazette have expired, and the Local Government has considered the objections (if any) which have been submitted under sub-section (1), the Local Government may, by a notification in the official Gazette, exclude the local area from the municipality or include it therein, as the case may be. Effect of exclusion of local area from municipality.