Another important feature of the new Act is the provision for a second tier administration in the form of borough committees. At the first meeting after a general election or as soon as may be, the Corporation has to group the wards of the Corporation into fifteen boroughs. Each borough consists of such number of wards as the Corporation may determine. Each borough committee will consist of the councillors other than the Chairman of the Corporation and the members nominated from amongst the elected members of the Corporation to form a panel of presiding officers to preside over the meetings of the Corporation in the absence of the Chairman. Also the members of the Mayor-in-Council are debarred from being members of the borough committees. A member of a borough committee representing a constituent ward will hold office for so long as he continues to be councillor representing such a ward. One of the members of each borough committee is elected as its Chairman. At the locality level each borough committee is expected to look after the purely local