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(1) Every manager of a hotel or owner of a lodging house who accommodates lodgers or permits lodgers to be accommodated in a room or specified unit of accommodation in a hotel or lodging house in excess of the number fixed by the Controller under section 22, except with the consent of all the lodgers of such room or specified unit of accom- modation, shall on conviction in a Criminal Court be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. (2) Every manager of a hotel or owner of a • lodging house who.fails to display a notice as required under section 24 of the fair rate or the number of lodgers fixed under sec- tion a2 shall on conviction in a Criminal Court be punished wit `nt which may extend to five hundred rupees. CHAPTER VI. APPOINTMENT OF THE CONTROLLER AND OTHER OFFICERS, THEIR POWERS AND FUNCTIONS.