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Proportionate recovery of the cost of additional police and compensation for loss caused by unlawful assembly. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act. 1947 (Bom LVII of 1947), 4[or any law corresponding thereto in force in any area of the State of Bombay], where under the provisions of Sec. 50 or 51, the Municipal Commissioner, the Municipality or the Collector, as the case may be, is required to recover the cost of the additional police including the additional sum referred to in sub-section (3) of Sec. 50 (hereinafter called “the additional cost”) or the compensation amount and the municipal recovery cost (hereinafter called “the riot tax”) by an addition to the general or property tax, the landlord from whom any portion of the additional cost or the riot tax is recovered, in respect of any premises shall be entitled to recover 75 per cent, of such portion from the tenant in the occupation of the premises during the period fixed under sub-section (1) of Sec. 50 or on the date or during the greater part of the period specified under Cl. (b) of sub-section (1) of Sec. 51, as the case may be, in the manner specified in sub-section (2). (2) The amount referred to in sub-section (1) and to be recovered from a tenant referred to therein, shall bear the same proportion as the rent payable by him in respect of the premises in his occupation bears to the total amount of rent recoverable for the whole premises if let, and the same shall be recoverable from the tenant in not less than four equal instalments. (3) The provisions of sub-section (1) in so far as they relate to the recovery of the riot tax from the tenants shall not apply to Greater Bombay during the period during which Sec 10-B of the Bombay Rents Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 is in force in the said area. Gujarat Amendment: 1 Vide Gujarat Act 15 of 1964, Sec. 4 and Sch. 2 Vide Gujarat Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960. 3 Vide Gujarat Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960. 4 These words were inserted by Bom 34 of 1959, Sec 18. 37 In Sec. 54 omit sub-section (3).1 II. Dispersal of the Gangs and Removal of Persons convicted of certain offences 2[and of certain beggars]