Power of Government to provide for performance of duties in default of municipal council.

[Content provided in document header: Power of Government to provide for performance of duties in default of municipal council.] (1) When the Government is informed, on complaint made or otherwise, that a municipal council has made default in performing any duty imposed on it by or under this Act, or by or under any law for the time being in force, the Government, if satisfied after due inquiry that the municipal council has been guilty of the alleged default, may fix a period for the performance of that duty. (2) If that duty is not performed within the period so fixed, the Government may appoint some person to perform it, and may direct that the expenses of performing it, with a reasonable remuneration to the person appointed to perform it, shall be forthwith paid by the municipal council. (3) If the expense and remuneration are not so paid, the Government may make an order directing any person, who for the time being has custody of any moneys on behalf of the municipal council, to pay such expense and remuneration from such moneys as he may have in his hands or may from time to time receive, and such person shall be bound to obey such order.