(1)

Except as hereinafter provided, no payment of any sum sh:,11 be made by the Commissioner out of the municipal fund, unless the expenditure of the same is covered by a current budget grant, and sufficient balance of such budget grant is still available, notwithstanding any reduction or transfer thereof which may have been made under section 133 or section 134:

Exceptions.

(2)

Provided that the following items shall be excepted from this prohibition, namely:-

(a) sums of which the expenditure has been sanctioned by the [Standing Committee] [These words were substituted for the words 'Mayor-in-Council' by Maharashtra 27 of 1999, Section 48(a), (w.e.f. 23-4-1999).] under section 132;

(b) temporary payments under section 119 for works urgently required in the public service;

(c) refunds of taxes and other moneys which the Commissioner is by or under this Act authorised to make;

(d) repayments of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons held in deposit and of moneys collected or credited to the municipal fund by mistake;

(e) sums which the Commissioner is by section 222, sub-section (3), 309, sub section (2), 315, sub-section (2), 334, sub-section (2), 395, sub-section (2), 426, sub-section (2), 427, sub-section (4), 501 and 515, clause (b) required or empowered to pay by way of compensation;

(f) sums payable in any of the circumstances mentioned in clause (f) of section 118;

(g) expenses incurred by the Commissioner in the exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 434;

(h) costs incurred by the Commissioner under [clause (c) or (d) of sub-section (3)] [This portion was substituted for the original by Bombay 48 of 1948, Section 22.] of section 64:

(3)

In sub-section (1), "budget grant " means a budget grant within the meaning of that term as defined in section 130 and includes any sum by which such budget grant may at any time be increased by a transfer under [sub-section (1)] [This was substituted for 'clause (b)' by Bombay 5 of 1938, Section 15.] of section 133.