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(1) No person shall, without or otherwise tt«sJt-yar«h- t a) keep open any private market, or wilfully or negligently permit any place to be used as a private market; or (b) use any place in the city as a slaughter house or stock-yard, or for the slaughter ing of any animal intended for human consumption ; or (c) use any place outside the city whether as a slaughter-house or otherwise, for the slaughtering of any animal intended for human consumption in the city ; or (d) use any place that may be set apart by the Corporation in this behalf for the sacrifice of animals in accordance with religious customs and for the sale of flesh thereof ; Provided that— (i) the Commissioner shall not refuse, suspend or cancel any license for keeping open a private market for any cause other than the failure of the owner thereof to comply with the provisions of this Act, or bye-laws made thereunder ; and (ii) nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be deemed to pro hibit the slaughter of any animal in any place as a part of any religious festival or ceremony. (2) Every such license shad be renewable annually on the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health. (3) There shall be paid for every license granted under sub-section (1) such annual fee as may be fx«d ]»y the Corporation. 170 (4) If any private market or any place set apart under clause (d) of sub-section (1) be closed for more than half of any year for which a fee has been paid, the Corporation may refund the whole or any por tion of the fee so paid for that year. (5) When the Commissioner has refused, sus pended or cancelled any license to keep open a private market, he shall cause a notice of his having done so to be affixed on some conspicuous spot on or near the building or place where such market has been held. At Levy of ittllagei, recti and fees.