Unemployment (Relief Works) Act, 1940

Power of Minister to compel execution of work.

3.—(1) It shall be the duty of the local authority which is the executing authority in respect of a certified work to undertake, execute and complete such work with all reasonable speed.

(2) Whenever a local authority refuses or, in the opinion of the Minister, has failed to do anything which is declared by this section to be the duty of such local authority, the Minister may by order made by him under section 72 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), but without holding any such local inquiry as is mentioned in that section, dissolve such local authority, and thereupon the said section 72 as amended by subsequent enactments shall apply and have effect accordingly.