The Burma Municipal Act, 1884, 17 of 1884, (Rep., Act 13 of 1898) · VI — .

Section 110. (1) Where, under this Act, the owner or occupier of property is required by the committee to execute

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

(3) Provided that an occupier shall not be required to pay, under the last sub-section, any greater sum than the amount of rent which is for the time being due from him to the owner, or which, after demand for payment of the money payable by him to the committee and notice not to pay rent without first deducting the amount so demanded, becomes payable by him to the owner, unless he refuses on application to him by the committee truly to disclose the amount of his rent and the name and address of Execution of acts required to be done by any notice. Recovery of costs of execution. 228 Burma Municipalities. [ACT XVII (Chapter VI.—Powers for Sanitary and other Purposes.—Sections 111 & 112.) of the person to whom it is payable; but the burden of proof that the sum so demanded by the committee from the occupier exceeds the rent due at the time of the demand, or which has since accrued due, shall lie on the occupier. (4) All money recoverable by a committee under this section may be recovered either by suit, or on application to a Magistrate having jurisdiction within the municipality by distress and sale of the moveable property of the person from whom the money is recoverable, and if payable by the owner of property shall, until it is paid, be a charge on the property. (5) Nothing in this section shall affect any contract between an owner and an occupier. Compensation out of municipal fund. (2) If the person in default is the owner, the committee may, by way of additional remedy, recover the whole or any part of the cost from the occupier, and in such case the occupier may deduct any sum paid by him under this sub-section from the rent from time to time becoming due from him to the owner of the property in respect of which the payment is made, or otherwise recover it from the owner. 110. (1) Where, under this Act, the owner or occupier of property is required by the committee to execute any work and makes default in complying with the requirement, and the committee executes the work, the committee may recover the cost of the work from the person in default.

Source: India Code