Power to provide for the performance of duties in case of default of a Committee

Power to provide for the performance of duties in case of default of a Committee.--

1. (1) If any Town Area Committee refuses or omits to perform any prescribed duty, the [Government], or such other officer as may be empowered by it in this behalf, may direct the execution of any work or the doing of any act which a Committee is empowered to execute or do and the immediate execution or doing of which is, in its opinion, necessary for the service or safety of the public, and may direct that the expense of executing the work or of doing the act shall be forthwith paid by the Committee.
2. (2) Should the expenses be not so paid, the [Government] or the officer empowered by it, as the case may be, may make an order directing the person having the custody of the balance of the Town Area Fund to pay the expense or so much thereof as may from time to time be possible from that balance, in priority to all other charges against the same.