Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Amendment of Section 4 of the Principal Act.—For Section 4 of the Principal Act substitute the following, namely:— “4. Licensing Authority.—Subject to provisions of Section 5, the District Magistrate within the jurisdiction of his district or any other * 2 authority constituted by the State Government by notification in the official Gazette (hereinafter referred to as the Licensing Authority) for the whole or any part of the State may grant licenses under this A ct: Provided that no license shall be issued by the Licensing Authority except with t e previous approval of the State Government and in accord ing such approval the State Government shall take into consideration all applications for the license in question and after such consideration may accord its approval to the proposal submitted by the Licensing Authority or direct such authority to grant a license to any of the other applicants with or without such conditions as it may deem proper and in such cases such direction shall be deemed to be the previous approval of the State Government” .