Bombay Police Act, 1951, (Maharashtra) Section 54 - Bare Act

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947,¹[or any law corresponding thereto in force in any area of the²[State of Maharashtra,] where under the provisions of section 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 section 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 section 50 or on the date or during the greater part of the period specified under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 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 tenant shall not apply to Greater Bombay during the period during which section 10-B of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, is in force in the said area.

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1. These words were inserted by Bom. 34 of 1959, s. 18.

2. These words were substituted for the words "State of Bombay" by the Maharashtra Adaptation Laws (State and Concurrent Subject) Order, 1960.