sec.56Effect of investigation on local bodies

### sec.56 Effect of investigation on local bodies Upon the Coordinator-General notifying a local body that the Coordinator-General has commenced to undertake an investigation of any proposal pursuant to the Governor in Council’s approval under section 55 — the jurisdiction of the local body to deal with any application that has been made or is subsequently made to it and relates to that proposal shall be suspended until it is further notified by the Coordinator-General that its jurisdiction in respect of such application is restored in accordance with this part, the provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and where the local body would but for this section be required to decide within a limited time the matter of any application in respect of which its jurisdiction is suspended by paragraph (a) , time shall be taken not to have commenced to run against the local body in relation to such application until its jurisdiction in respect of such application is duly restored. s 56 ins 1981 No. 18 s 4 - (a) the jurisdiction of the local body to deal with any application that has been made or is subsequently made to it and relates to that proposal shall be suspended until it is further notified by the Coordinator-General that its jurisdiction in respect of such application is restored in accordance with this part, the provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and - (b) where the local body would but for this section be required to decide within a limited time the matter of any application in respect of which its jurisdiction is suspended by paragraph (a) , time shall be taken not to have commenced to run against the local body in relation to such application until its jurisdiction in respect of such application is duly restored.