(1) If any dispute for the decision of which this Act does not otherwise provide exists between a municipal council and one or more other municipal bodies in regard to any matters arising under the provisions of this or any other Act and the dispute is not amicably settled--

(a) the Deputy Commissioner may take cognizance of the dispute and decide it himself if the dispute is between two or more town municipal councils in the same district or a town municipal council and a¹[a town panchayat] in the same district;

(b) the Commissioner may take cognizance of the dispute and decide it, in all other cases, in the same Revenue Division except when the Municipal Corporation of any City is a party to the dispute;

(c) the Government may decide the dispute, if a Municipal Corporation of a City is a party to the dispute or if the dispute is between municipal bodies in two or more Revenue Divisions.

(2) An appeal shall lie to the Commissioner from an order of the Deputy Commissioner under clause (a) of sub-section (1) and to the Government from an order of the Commissioner under clause (b) of sub-section (1).

(3) No suit shall be entertained by a civil court in respect of any disputereferred to in sub-section (1).

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1. Substituted by Act 36 of 1994 w.e.f. 1.6.1994.