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The Town Improvement Act, 1953 (East Bengal Act)

( ACT NO. XIII OF 1953 )

Chapter VI

FINANCE

Enforcement of Liabilities

Procedure if Kartripakkha fail to make any payment or investment in respect of loans
119. (1) If the Kartripakkha fail-
 
 
 
 
(a) to pay any interest due in respect of any loan taken in pursuance of section 104, or
 
 
 
 
(b) to make any payment prescribed by section 112, section 113 or sub-section (2) of section 118, or
 
 
 
 
(c) to make any investment prescribed by section 115,
 
 
 
 
the 1[Auditor-General] shall make such payment or set aside and invest such sum as ought to have been invested under the said section 115, as the case may be; and the 2[Mayor of the Corporation or Chairman of the Paurashava] shall forthwith pay from the 3[the Corporation or Paurashava Fund to the Auditor-General] a sum equivalent to the sum so paid or invested by him; and the Government may attach the rents and other income of the Kartripakkha.
 
 
 
 
(2) Whenever the 4[Mayor of the Corporation or Chairman of the Paurashava] has made any payment to the 5[Auditor-General] under sub-section (1), the Government shall reimburse the Corporation or Paurashava out of the rents and income attached under sub-section (1) and if such rents and income prove insufficient for the purpose, may, 6[direct the Corporation or Paurashava to increase the tax on the annual value of buildings and lands leviable by them] to such extent as may be necessary for the purposes of making up the deficiency.

  • 1
    The word “Auditor-General” was substituted for the words and comma “Accountant-General of East Pakistan” by section 34 of the Town Improvement (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act No. XXIX of 1987)
  • 2
    The words ”Mayor of the Corporation or Chairman of the Paurashava” were substituted for the words “Chairman of the Municipal Committee” by section 36 of the Town Improvement (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act No. XXIX of 1987)
  • 3
    The words “the Corporation or Paurashava Fund to the Auditor-General” were substituted for the words “Municipal Funds to the said Accountant-General” by section 34 of the Town Improvement (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act No. XXIX of 1987)
  • 4
    The words “Mayor of the Corporation or Chairman of the Paurashava” were substituted for the words “Chairman of the Municipal Committee” by section 36 of the Town Improvement (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act No. XXIX of 1987)
  • 5
    The word “Auditor-General” was substituted for the words and comma “Accountant-General, East Pakistan” by section 34 of the Town Improvement (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act No. XXIX of 1987)
  • 6
    The words “direct the Corporation or Paurashava to increase the tax on the annual value of buildings and lands leviable by them” were substituted for the words, commas and figures “under section 36 of the Municipal Administration Ordinance, 1960, direct the Municipal Committee to increase the tax on the annual value of buildings and lands leviable under that Ordinance” by section 34 of the Town Improvement (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act No. XXIX of 1987)
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