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fradulently evades the payment of any duty a) due under this Act, or : (1) If the proprietor of an entertainment— Offences = ard penalties. (b) obstructs any officer making an inspection, a search or seizure under this Act, or (c) acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Act or the rules thereunder, he shall, on conviction, be liable in respect of each such offence to a fine which may extend to ‘[two thousand rupees] and when the offence is a continuing one, with a daily fine not exceeding fifty rupees during the period of the continuance of the offence. (2) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence under this Act or under the rules made thereunder except a complaint made by a person authorised in this of alf by the Government, and no Court inferior to that 0 a Judicial Magistrate of the first class] shall be Mpetent to try any of the offences under this Act. _— forte oon ont eae *Substituted 1963, Section or the words ‘‘one thousand rupees’ by Punjab Act No. 5 of *Substi j Of 1964 see for the words ‘‘Magistrate of the first class” by Punjab Act No, 2 ‘Section 2, Schedule, Part IJI, — © Scanned with OKEN Scanner ~ 3 THE PUNJAB ENTERTAINMENTS Ac 356 DUTY ACT, 1955 [Act No, XVy Powerd to com: