Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
(1) The Corporation may from time to time appoint out of its own body, Special Committees which shall conform to any instructions that the Corporation may from time to time give them. (2) The Corporation may by specific resolution passed by the vote of not less than two-thirds of the councillors present and voting at a meeting of the Corporation define the sphere of business of each Special Committee and direct that all matters and questions included in any such sphere shall in the first instance be placed before the appropriate Committee and shall be submitted to the Corporation with such Committee's recommendation; and the Corporation may also by a like resolution delegate any of its powers and duties to specified Special Committees. (3) Every Special Committee shall appoint two of its member to be its Chairman and Deputy Chairman: Provided that no councillor shall, at the same time, be the Chairman of more than one Special Committee. [ (3A) The term of the members of every Special Committee appointed by the Corporation upon the general elections held after the date of the commencement of the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Act, 2015 shall be two and a half years.] (4) The Chairman and in his absence the Deputy Chairman and, in the absence of both, such other member as may be chosen by the members of the Special Committee present at a meeting thereof shall preside at the meeting. (5) Any member of a Special Committee who absents himself during two successive months from the meetings of such Committee, except on account of temporary illness or other cause to be approved by such Committee, or absents himself from or is unable to attend the meetings of such Committee during four successive months from any cause whatsoever, whether approved by such Committee or not, shall cease to be a member of such Committee and his seat shall thereupon be vacant. (6) All the proceedings of every Special Committee shall be subject to confirmation by the Corporation: Provided that if, in delegating any of its powers or duties to a Special Committee under sub-section (2), the Corporation directs that the decision of such Committee shall