THE MANIPUR (HILL AREAS) DISTRICT COUNCILS ACT, 1971 · CONSTITUTION OF DISTRICT COUNCILS
Section 22 — Incorporation of District Councils
Each District Council shall be a body corporate by the name respectively of “the District Council of (name of autonomous district)” and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract and may by the said name sue and be sued.