Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Payment not to be made unless covered by a budget grant.- No payment of any sum out of the Corporation Fund shall be made unless the expenditure of the same is covered by a current budget grant and sufficient balance of such budget grant is still available notwithstanding any reduction or transfer thereof which may have been made under the provisions of this Act: Provided that this section shall not apply to payment made in the following classes of cases, namely:- (a) repayment of moneys, belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and of moneys collected or credited to the Corporation Fund by mistake; (b) refund of taxes and other moneys which are authorised under this Act. (c) sums payable in any of the following circumstances - (i) under orders of the Government on failure of the Corporation to take any action as required by the Government; or (ii) under any other enactment for the time being in force; or (iii) under the decree of order of a civil or criminal court passed against the Corporation; or (iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceeding; or (v) on account of cost incurred in taking immediate action by the Corporation or the Commissioner to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of the Corporation or to human life . (d) temporary payment for works urgently required by the Government in the public interest; (e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or under any rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder; (f) expenses incurred by the Corporation as special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases; and (g) amount payable to Government by way of audit fee. THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 81