Lepers Act : POWER TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO EXPEND FUNDS AND APPROPRIATE PROPERTY TO ASYLUMS Indian Bare Acts

Lepers Act,1898

Act No : 3

Section : POWER TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO EXPEND FUNDS AND APPROPRIATE PROPERTY TO ASYLUMS

SECTION 17: POWER TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO EXPEND FUNDS AND APPROPRIATE PROPERTY TO ASYLUMS

Notwithstanding anything in any enactment with respect to the purposes to which the funds or other property of a local authority may be applied, any local authority may-

(a) establish or maintain, or establish .and maintain, or contribute towards the cost of the establishment or maintenance or the establishment and maintenance of, a leper asylum either within or without the local limits of such local authority;

(b) with the previous sanction of the23[State Government] and subject to such conditions as that Government may prescribe, appropriate any immovable property vested in, or under the control of, such body, as a site for, or for use as a leper asylum.