PART VIII

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Return to the Governor.

s.199

(2) Where any sum is borrowed by the Council for the

purpose of meeting expenditure on the construction of new, or

the extension or alteration of existing, works forming or to

form part of an undertaking of a revenue-producing character,

it shall be lawful for any annual provision required to be made

by the Council for the repayment of the sum so borrowed to be

suspended for such period (not being longer than the period

during which the expenditure remains unremunerative, or the

period of five years from the commencement of the financial year

next after that in which the expenditure commences to be incurred,

whichever is the shorter) and subject to such conditions as the

Governor may determine.

81.- (1) The clerk of the Council shall, within one

month after being requested so to do by the Governor, transmit

to the Governor a return showing the provision made by the

Council for the repayment of moneys borrowed by the Council.

(2) The return shall show such particulars, shall be made

up to such date and shall be in such form, as the Governor may

require, shall be certified by the Municipal Trasurer, and shall,

if so required by the Governor, be verified by a statutory

declaration made by that officer.

(3) If it appears to the Governor from any return made

under this section or otherwise that the Council

(a) have failed to pay any instalment or annual or

other periodical payment required to be paid, or

(b) have failed to appropriate to the discharge of any

loan any sum required to be so appropriated: or

(c) have failed to set apart any sum required for a

sinking fund: or

(d) have applied any portion of a sinking fund to a

purpose other than those authorized;

the Governor may by order direct that such sun as is specified

in the order, not exceeding the amount in respect of which

default has been made, shall be paid or applied in the manner

and by the date set out in the order, and the Council shall

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