Clause 3

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may, on the expiration of 8 days after the date of publication of the results of any general election in the Gazette under section 51 of the Parliamentary Elections Act [Cap. 218], by order under subsection (1) declare each constituency to be a Town except those constituencies whose Members of Parliament have agreed to their constituencies being declared to be a Town.”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “former constituency within a Town” in the third line of subsection (3), the words “or any part of a former constituency within a Town (referred to in this section as the relevant area)”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “within that area” in the eleventh line of subsection (3), the words “as if the order had not been made”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(3A) Nothing in subsection (3) shall authorise the Town Council of the Town firstmentioned therein to draw on either —

any surpluses of the Town Council which are required under section 33A to be transferred to its sinking funds; or

any balance of those surpluses,to maintain and manage the common property of the residential and commercial property in the housing estates of the Board within the relevant area.”.