Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) A Municipality may enter into and perform all such contracts as it may consider necessary or expedient carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. (2) The making of contracts under or for any purpose of this Act shall be subject to the following provisions, namely:- (a) every contract shall be made on behalf of the Municipality by the Secretary; (b) no contract for any purpose, which, in accordance with any provision of this Act, the Secretary may not carry out without the sanction of one of the other municipal authorities, shall be made by him unless such sanction has been obtained; (c) Where tender is necessary no contract shall be made by the Secretary unless the tender therefore has been accepted by the competent authority; Explanation. - The term 'tender' in this clause shall include any bid at an auction. (d) [x x x x] (3) [x x x x] Clause (d) omitted by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. The omitted clause (d) read as under: "(d) in the case of every contract for works, supplies or services made by the Secretary, the estimate for which he is competent to sanction, such contract shall be reported to the Standing Committee concerned within fifteen days after it has been made." Sub-section (3) omitted by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. The omitted sub-section (3) read as under: "(3)The provisions of sub-section (2)shall apply to any variation of a contract involving an increase of more than ten per cent of the expenditure involved in the original contract."