Supreme Court of India
Morvi Municipality v. State of Gujarat.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we set aside the finding of the High Court that Rule 5 is ultra vires the Act and hold that ’the same is to be read as being applicable only to the properties which are not governed by the provisions of the Rent Control Act.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Some tax-payers of the appellant-Municipality filed a writ petition in the High Court challenging the validity of the rules made by it for the levy of consolidated property tax on lands and buildings and also the assessment list prepared and authenticated by the Municipality for the year 1967-68, 1968-69 and 1969-70. It was contented before the High Court that Rules 2(7), 4 and 5 of the Rules of the consolidated property tax on the lands and buildings were ultra vires section 99(1) (i) and the proviso (e) to it read with section 2(1) of the Act, and that the assessment lists for the years…
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