Section 39:
Annual estimates of income and expenditure of district boards.
(1) Every district board shall
appoint a finance committee consisting of not less than three of its members.
(2) Every district board shall, on or before a boards prescribed day in each year, hold a meeting at
which the finance committee shall submit to the board an estimate of the income and expenditure of the
board for the next financial year, in such form as the Local Government may, by a rule made under this
Act, prescribe.
(3) The board shall consider the estimate, and may provisionally approve of it .with or without
modification.
(4) The board shall, on or before a prescribed day, cause copies of the estimate, as provisionally
approved by it, to be sent to the Deputy Commissioner.
(5) The Deputy Commissioner shall, on or before a, prescribed day, signify in writing to the board his
approval or disapproval of the estimate. When he disapproves of the estimate, he shall state the nature of his objection. The board shall then consider the matter, and either modify the estimate, so as to remove
the objection, or refer it through the Deputy Commissioner to the Commissioner of the division. If the
Commissioner concurs in the objection, he shall make such modification in the estimate as may, in his
judgment, be necessary to remove the objection in whole or in part. If he does not concur in the objection,
he shall pass the estimate, and his order shall be final and binding on the board.
(6) When the Deputy Commissioner has signified his approval of an estimate, or the board has
modified an estimate so as to remove the Deputy Commissioner's objections, or when the Commissioner
has passed orders as provided in sub-section (5), no expenditure which is not provided for in the estimate
as approved or modified shall be incurred during the year to which the estimate relates without the
previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner.
(7) When the Deputy Commissioner is a member of the district board, the Commissioner and the
Local Government shall take the place of the Deputy Commissioner and the Commissioner respectively
for the purposes of this section.