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(7) Any officer not below such rank as may be d | ‘ Places of enter. 1 ml Prescribe , at any reasonable time, for the Purpose of ensuring that the provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder are being Complied with, and while doing so, such officer shall not be deemed to be a person, admitted to the entertainment. (2) The proprietor of every entertainment shall give every reasonable assistance to the aforesaid officer in the performance of his duties under sub-section (J). Power to impose pecuniary penalties *[(14-A) *[(1) Where a Proprietor Of an parerta on, Proprietors ment commits any of the acts Specified in sub-section ( d- ofentertainments. (6 section 15, the prescribed authority may, after affor ing such Proprietor q reasonable Opportunity of being 1Proviso inserted by Punjab Act No. 10 of 1965, section 4, *Inserted by Punjab Act No. 5 of 1963, section 4. *Substituted by Punjab Act No. 10 of 1965, section 5, © Scanned with OKEN Scanner , HE PUNJAB ENTERTAINMENTS 355 purty ACT, 1955 direct him to renee not oxcesting t ib adattion d, oY due, if any, & XC g (wo thousand por? duty upee® 7 ag that in cases of free, surreptitious, proves or concessional entry, whether with or suihorise nowledge of the proprietor, the prescrib- th pall direct the proprietor to pay, by a sum equal to twenty-five times the oJ “Of pends. found to be due as a result of such entry: No prosecution for an offence under this Act (2) instituted against a proprietor of an entertain- shall be © of the same facts on which a penalty has ‘1 respect ent in wosed on him under sub-section (/)]. peen