Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
1Central Government] may, as often as may be girh&l}fy. foca! necessary£ direct that the expenses of discharging such functions shall, within such time as may be fixed, be paid by the local authority and should the expenses be not so paid, the [Central Government] may make an order direct- ing the person having the custody of the balance of the funds of the local authority to pay the expenses, or so much thereof as may from time to time be possible, from that balance, in priority to all other charges against the same. Tl S