Special Permits and Licences (Amendment) Rules, 2017
No. BPA. 0417 /CR-71/EXC-2.-- Whereas, the Government of Maharashtra consider it expedient that the following rules further to amend the Special Permit and Licences Rules, 1952 should be brought into force at once, and therefore the rule should be made without previous publication as provided by the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 143 of the Maharashtra Prohibition Act (XXV of 1949);
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (b), (g) and (h1) of sub-section (2) of section 143 of the Maharashtra Prohibition Act and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the Government of Maharashtra hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Special Permits and Licences Rules, 1952, as follows, namely:--
1. These rules may be called the Special Permits and Licences (Amendment) Rules, 2017.
2. In rule 5 of the Special Permits and Licences Rules, 1952 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Rules"), in sub-rule (3),--
(i) in clause (a),--
(a) in sub-clause (i), the words "or from the boundary of any National or State Highway" shall be deleted;
(b) after sub-clause (i), the following sub-clause shall be inserted, namely:--
" (ia) which, if situated in areas within the jurisdiction of any local Self-Government body having population not exceeding 20,000, is within a distance of two hundred and twenty metres and if situated elsewhere, within a distance of five hundred metres from the edge of any National or State Highway, or in case of any existing service road then the distance from the edge of such service road adjacent to the National or State Highway;";
(c) after the existing proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:--
"Provided further that, if at any time after the commencement of the Special Permits and Licences (Amendment) Rules, 2017 it is observed that, if any shop is situated in areas within the jurisdiction of any local Self-Government body having population not exceeding 20,000, is within a distance of two hundred and twenty metres and if situated elsewhere, within a distance of five hundred metres from the edge of any National or State Highway, or in case of any existing service road then the distance from the edge of such service road adjacent to the National or State Highway, the licence shall stand cancelled forthwith.";
(ii) in the Explanation, in para (iii), for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:--
"(c) the edge of any...
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