Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
(1) In the event of the Corporation acquiring or establishing a Transport Undertaking there shall be a Transport Committee consisting of nine members for the purpose of conducting the said undertaking in accordance with the provisions of this Act and subject to the conditions and limitations as are contained therein. (2) The Corporation shall at its first meeting after a Transport Undertaking is acquired or established appoint eight members of the Transport Committee from among persons who in the opinion of the Corporation have had experience of, and shown capacity in, administration or transport or in engineering, industrial, commercial, financial or labour matters and who may or may not be councillors. (3) A person shall be disqualified for being appointed, and for being a member of the Transport Committee if, under the provisions of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, he would be disqualified for being elected as, and for being, a councillor. (4) The Chairman of the Standing Committee shall be a member of the Transport Committee, ex-officio. (5) The term of the members of the Transport Committee shall be two and a half years: Provided that such term shall not extend beyond the term of the Corporation. (6) The members shall be eligible for re-appointment. (9) In the event of non-acceptance of office by any person appointed to be a member of the Transport Committee or of the death, resignation or dis-qualification of a member of the Committee or of his becoming incapable of acting, or of his office becoming vacant under the provisions of section 26, the vacancy shall be filled up, as soon as conveniently may be, by the appointment by the Corporation of a duly qualified person thereto, and such person shall hold office so long only as the person in whose place he is appointed would have held it if the vacancy had not occurred.