(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 60, the State Government may order that there shall be a concurrent audit of the accounts of the Board by such person as it thinks fit. The State Government may also direct a special audit to be made by such person as it thinks fit of the accounts of the Board relating to any particular transaction or a class of series of transactions or to a particular period.
(2) When an order is made under sub-section (1) the Board shall present or cause to be presented for audit such accounts and shall furnish to the person appointed under subsection (1) such information as the said person may require for the purpose of audit.
Subventions and loans to the Board.
Power Board to a borrot.
Accounts and audit.
Concurrent and special audit of accounts.
CHAPTER VIII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
62. The Board shall, before such date and in such form and at such interval as may be prescribed, submit to the State Government a report on such matters as may be prescribed. Every such report shall be laid before the State Leislature as soon as may be after it is published.
63. The Board shall also submit to the State Government such statistics, returns, particulars or statements in regard to any proposed or existing housing schemes at such times and in such form and manner as may be prescribed or as the State Government may form time to time direct.
64. The Chairman or any person either generally or specially authorised by the Chairman in this behalf may, with or without assistants or workmen, enter into or upon any land, in order—
(a) to make any inspection, survey, measurement, valuation or inquiry,
(b) to take levels,
(c) to dig or bore into the sub-soil,
(d) to set out the boundaries and the intended outlines of work,
(e) to mark such levels, boundaries and lines of works and cutting trenches, or
(f) to do any other thing, whenever it is necessary to do so for any of the purposes of this Act or any rules made or scheme sanctioned thereunder:
Provided that—
(i) no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise;
(ii) no dwelling house and no public building which is used as a dwelling place, shall be so entered, without giving the said occupier at least twenty four hours' previous written notice of the intention to make such entry;
(iii) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of any apartment set apart for females to remove themselves to some part of the premises where their privacy will not be disturbed;
(iv) due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.
65. No person shall commence any suit against the Board or against any officer or servant of the Board or any person acting under the orders of the Board, for anything done or purporting to have been done in pursuance of this Act, without giving to the Board, officer or servant or person, as the case may be, two months' previous notice in writing of the intended suit and of the cause thereof, nor after six months from the date of the act complained of.
And in the case of any such suit for damages, if tender of sufficient amends shall have been made before the action was brought, the plaintiff shall not recover more than the amounts so tendered and shall pay all costs incurred by the defendant after such tender.
Reports.
Other statements and returns.
Powers of entry Notices of suit against Board.
66. The Board shall quinquennially have a valuation of its assets and liabilities made by a valuer appointed with the approval of the State Government:
Provided that it shall be open to the State Government to direct a valuation to be made at any time it may consider necessary.
67. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Board to undertake on behalf of the Government or a local authority or a corporation owned or controlled by the Government, or a Co-operative society registered or deemed to have been registered under the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961, subject to such terms and conditions including payment of cost as may be agreed upon in pursuance of a contract or otherwise, the construction of building intended to be used as a hospital dispensary, school or for any other charitable purpose as may be entrusted to it by the Government or a local authority or such corporation:
Provided that no such construction shall be undertaken on behalf of a local authority or any such corporation except with the previous sanction of the State Government.