Acts and Proceedings of Municipality and Committees Not Vitiated by Disqualifications Etc., of Members Thereof

-(1) No disqualification of or defect in the election, nomination or appointment of any person acting as member, or as the Chairperson or presiding authority of a general meeting or a committee appointed under this Act shall be deemed to vitiate any act or proceeding of the Municipality or such committee, as the case may be, in which such person has taken part. (2) Where a member or a Chairperson or a ViceChairperson is declared, as the result of an election petition, not to have been duly elected he shall cease to act as such from such date but acts done by him till then in the execution of his office shall not be invalidated by reason of such declaration. (3) No resolution of a Municipality or any committee appointed under this Act shall be deemed invalid on account of any irregularity in the service of notice upon any member; provided that the proceedings of the Municipality or committee were not prejudicially affected by such irregularity. (4) Unless the contrary is proved, every meeting of the Municipality or of a committee appointed under this Act in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been made and signed in accordance with this Act, shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all the members at the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and, where the proceedings are the proceedings of a committee, such committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had the power to deal with the matters referred to in the minute. (5) During any vacancy in a Municipality or committee, the continuing members may act as if no vacancy had occurred.