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(1) If the 3[State] Government is satisfi ed that the inhabitants of any area concerned in the commition or abetment of any of the offences punishable under sections 5[65, 66, 66A, 67, 67-1A, 67 C, 68. 69 and 70] the 3[State] Government may, by notifi cation in the Offi cial Gazette, direct the employment of additional police 6[in that area] for such period as it thinks fi t. (2) The cost of such additional police shall, if the 1[State] Government so directs, be either in whole or in part defrayed by a tax imposed on the persons herein below mentioned, or by a rate assessed on the property of such persons, or both by a tax and by a rate so imposed and assessed, and charged— (a) either generally on all persons who are inhabitants of the local area to which such notifi cation applies ; or (b) specially on any particular section or sections or class or classes of such persons, and the 3[State] Government may direct the proportions in which such tax or rate shall be charged. Explanation. — For the purposes of this section “inhabitants” shall include persons who themselves or by their agents or servants occupy or hold land or other immov- able property within such area, and landlords who themselves or by their agents or servants collect rents or revenue direct from rayats or occupiers in such area, not- withstanding that they do not actually reside there in. (3) It shall be lawful for the 1[State] Government to extend, for a term not exceeding in any case fi ve years, the period for the payment of such tax or rate be- yond the period for which such additional police are actually employed. 7[(4) The provisions of sub-sections (4) to (7) of section 50 of the Bombay Police Act, 1951, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the recovery of such tax or rate. ]