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Section 64, The Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or

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(1) On or before the 15th day of October in each financialyear, the Rural Area Council shall prepare estimates of their anticipated revenue from all sources, and of the sums required to meet expenses during the following financial year. (2) In case the estimated revenue of the Rural Area Council would otherwise be insufficient to meet the estimated expenditure, it shall be lawful for the Rural Area Council to provide in its estimates for a contribution by rural district councils towards the expenditure of the Rural Area Council and to apportion the amount of such contribution between the various rural district councils according to the total rateable value of premises in each rural district. Thereupon the Rural Area Council shall where necessary amend the estimates of each rural district council and village committee accordingly. (3) The Rural Area Council shall forthwith send a certified copy of their estimates and of the estimates of each rural district council and village committee to the Minister for the consideration of the Minister who may approve or disapprove such estimates in whole or in part, or may before approving such estimates, amend them in any particular. (4) Such estimates when approved by the Minister shall be the estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year for which they are made, and no expenditure shall be incurred otherwise than in accordance therewith save with the previous written approval of the Minister. Such approval may be either general and subject to such conditions as the Minister may determine, or in respect of specified items in the estimates. Council Estimates. Approval of estimates. (5) On or before the lst day of April in each year the rural Contributions d . t · t "l h ll h · "b · h. f to Rural AreaIS nc counc1 s s a pay t err contn utwns tot e revenues o Council. the Rural Area Council as fixed for that year in the estimates approved by the Minister, whether or not such contributions are formally demanded. (6) The estimates as approved by the Minister shall !~t~~~;~~~ of be open to inspection during office hours by any person whose name appears in a Voters List compiled in terms of this Duties and powers of police not to be affected Council to promote building. 22 of 1957. Ordinance in the case of the Rural Area estimates, at the office of the Rural Area Council and of any rural district council; in the case of rural district estimates, at the office of the rural district council concerned; and in the case of village area estimates, at the office of the village committee concerned and of the rural district council to which such village committee is subordinate.

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