State Act

Punjab Town Improvement Act 1922

25. Housing accommodation scheme. - If the trust is of opinion that it is ex-pedient and for the public advantage to provide housing accommodation for any class of the inhabitants within its local area such trust may frame "a housing ac-commodation scheme" for the purpose aforesaid : Provided that if the 1[State] Government are satisfied that within the trust area it is necessary to provide housing accommodation for industrial la-bour, the State Government may by order require the trust to frame a scheme under this section and to do all things necessary under the Act for executing the scheme so made; and if the trust fail within such time as may be prescribed to frame a scheme to the satisfaction of the State Gov-ernment and to execute it, the State Government may either by order re-quire the municipal committee to frame and execute a scheme, or themselves frame a scheme and take such steps as are necessary to exe-cute it. All expenses incurred by the State Government or by the munici-pal committee in the exercise of the powers conferred upon them by this section shall, in the first instance, be paid out of 1[State] revenues, but the amount so spent shall be recoverable from the trust as if it were a 2[debt due to the State Government], and the State Government may attach the rents and other income of the trust. The provisions of section 72 shall also apply to all moneys so paid.