3. Every mining village corporation shall be governed by the provisions of the Municipal Code (chapter C-27.1), saving the derogations hereinafter prescribed and save where inconsistent with this act.
An officer called “director general”, appointed by the Government, and who must be a Canadian citizen or a citizen of the Commonwealth, shall be substituted, during the first five years of the corporation’s existence, for the municipal council, which can be elected only at the expiration of such period, and such director general shall have the rights, exercise the powers and be subject to the obligations of a village municipal council.
Every decision made and every action taken by the director general respecting the administration of the municipality for which he is appointed shall have the same effect as if they issued from a municipal council.
R. S. 1964, c. 195, s. 3; S. C. 1974-75-76, c. 108, s. 31; 1983, c. 57, s. 168.