State Act

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955.

596. Whoever- (a) contravenes any provision of any of the sections, sub-sections or clauses mentioned in the first column of the table in Schedule U or (b) fails to comply with any requisition lawfully made upon him under any of the said sections, sub-sections or clauses, shall be punished, for each such offence, with fine which may extend to the amount mentioned in that behalf in the third column of the said table: 353[Provided that the fine imposed shall, in no case be less than fifty percent of the said amount.] Explanation.— The entries in second column of the said table headed “Subject” are not intended as definitions of the offences described in the sections, sub-sections and clauses mentioned in the first column, or even as abstracts of those sections, sub-sections and clauses, but are inserted merely as references to the subjects of the sections, sub-sections and clauses, the numbers of which are given in the first column.