Commissioner may execute works under this Chapter without allowing option to persons concerned of executing the same

(1) The Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, cause any

work described in this Chapter to be executed

6[or any cistern to be supplied with a lock and key] by municipal or other agency under his own orders, without first of all giving the person by whom the same would otherwise have to be executed

7[or supplied] the option of doing

8[or supplying] the same.

1. (2) The expenses of any work so done (or of supplying such lock and key) shall be paid by the person aforesaid, unless the corporation shall, by a general or special order or resolution, sanction, as they are hereby empowered to sanction, the execution of such work 9[or the supply of such lock and key], at the charge of the municipal fund.]