Procedure when Town Area Authority fails to take action

-1 71. Procedure when Town Area Authority fails to take action.-

1. (1) If, within the period fixed by any order issued under the preceding section any action directed thereunder has not been duly taken, the Government may, by order--
   • (a) appoint some person to take action so directed ;
   • (b) fix the remuneration to be paid to him ; and
   • (c) direct that such remuneration and the cost of taking such action shall be defrayed out of the Town Fund and, if necessary, that any one or more of the taxes authorised by Chapter V shall be levied or increased.
2. (2) The person appointed under sub-section
3. (1) may, for the purpose of taking the action directed as aforesaid, exercise any of the powers conferred on any Town Area Committee by or under this Act which are specified in that behalf in the order issued under sub-section
4. (1) including the power to draw cheques on the account of the Town Fund.
5. (3) Any Bank or State Treasury having the custody of any account referred to in sub-section
6. (2) shall honour the cheques drawn as aforesaid on that account to the extent of the balance standing to the credit of the Town Fund.]