Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Any sum due on account of electricity duty if not paid at the Recoveries. prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, shall be recoverable as a public demand— (a) in the case of energy supplied by a licensee, at the discretion of the State Government, either from the consumer, or, subject to the proviso to clause (a) of section 4, from the licensee; (b) in the case of other energy, from the person or inter-State river valley authority liable to pay such duty under clause (b) or clause (c) of section 4.