Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Licensing markets, slaughter houses and certain businesses.—(1) It shall be lawful for the municipal council to direct that no place not belonging to or vested in the municipal council shall be used for any of the purposes specified in sub-clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 324 except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence from the municipal council which may grant such licences and if any of the conditions of licence is contravened or any bye-law or any provisions of this Act is contravened, suspend, withhold or withdraw such licence whether the licensee is prosecuted under this Act or not. (2) Whoever uses or permits the use of any place contraty to the direction, or without the licence required by sub-section (1), or in contravention of any of the conditions or during the suspension of the licence shall be punished 1[with penalty which may be extended to two hundred and fifty rupees.]1 (3) Upon a conviction being obtained in respect of any place under sub-section (2) the magistrate shall, on the application of the municipal council but not otherwise, order such place to be closed, and thereupon appoint persons or take other steps to prevent such place being so used; and every person who so uses or permits the use of a place after it has been so ordered to be closed, shall be punished 1[with penalty which may be extended to five hundred rupees]1 for each day during which he continues so to use, or permits such use of, the place after it has been so ordered to be closed.