Judgment

CHANDRACHUD, J. - The Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, VI of 1965, (hereinafter called "the Act") came into force on April 2, 1965. Section 3 (1) (a) of the Act empowers the State Government to constitute a local area as a Municipality. Section 3 (1) (b) empowers the Government, by notification in the Gazette "to include within a Municipality any local area in the vicinity thereof and defined in such notification". Section 3 (1) (c) confers power on the Government to exclude from a Municipality any local area comprised therein and defined in such notification. Under Section 3 (2), any resident of a local area, or tax payer of a Municipality, in respect of which a notification under Section 3 (1) is published, may, if he desires to object to anything therein contained, submit his objection in writing to the Government within six weeks from the publication of the notification and the Government is under an obligation to take all such objections into consideration. Under Section 3 (3) after the expiry of the aforesaid "period of six weeks and on considering the objections, the Government may by notification in the Gazette declare to be a Municipality or include in or exclude