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CHAPTER — IV MUNICIPAL FUND AND PROPERTY

Section 125: Payment of compensation from municipal fund

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

The Municipality may make compensation out of the municipal fund to any person sustaining any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers vested in the Municipality, its, officers or servants under this or any other enactment or vested in the 1[State Government], the 2[Prescribed Authority] or the District Magistrate under section 34, and shall make such compensation where the person sustaining the damage was not himself in the matter in respect of which the power was exercised.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. for (Commissioner) by sec. 60 of U. P. Act VII of 1949.
  2. 2.Subs. by A. O. 1950 for (Provl. Govt.), which had been Subs. by the A. O. 1937 for (L. G.) which had been subs. for (G. G. in C.) by sec. 2 and Sch. 1 of Act XXXVIII of 1920.

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