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CHAPTER VII REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE · The Municipal Fund

Section 102: Payments not to be made unless covered by a budget-grant

The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code (Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice), as on 15 May 2026, with amendments up to the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026 (8 of 2026).

No payment of any sum out of the Municipal Fund shall be made unless the expenditure of the same is covered by a current budget-grant and a sufficient balance of such budget grant is still available notwithstanding any reduction or transfer thereof which may have been made under the provisions of this Act:

Provided that this section shall not apply to payments made in the following classes of cases namely:—

(a) refund of taxes and other moneys which are authorised under this Act;

(b) repayment of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons and held in deposit and of moneys collected or credited to the Municipal Fund by mistake;

(c) sums payable in any of the following circumstances—

(i) under orders of the Central Government on failure of 1[2[the Corporation]] to take any action as required by that Government; or

(ii) under any other enactment for the time being in force; or

(iii) under the decree or order of a civil or criminal court passed against 1[2[the Corporation]]; or

(iv) under a compromise of any claim, suit or other legal proceedings; or

(v) on account of cost incurred in taking immediate action by 1[2[the Corporation]] or any of the municipal authorities to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of 1[2[the Corporation]] or to human life;

(d) temporary payments for works urgently required by the Central Government in the public interest;

(e) sums payable as compensation under this Act or under any rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder;

(f) expenses incurred by 1[2[the Corporation]] on special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2 “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  2. 2.Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).