No payment of any sum out of
the New Delhi 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 New Delhi Municipal Fund by mistake;
(c) sums payable in any of the following circumstances--
(i) under orders of the Central Government on failure of the Council 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 the Council; 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 the Chairperson under clause (c) of section 18 to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of the Council 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 under section 287 by the Chairperson on special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases.
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 New Delhi Municipal Fund by mistake;
(c) sums payable in any of the following circumstances--
(i) under orders of the Central Government on failure of the Council 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 the Council; 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 the Chairperson under clause (c) of section 18 to avert a sudden threat of danger to the property of the Council 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 under section 287 by the Chairperson on special measures taken on the outbreak of dangerous diseases.