2. Extent व्याप्ती

Provided that, if the selected applicant fails to complete necessary formalities for obtaining the Licence within three months of receipt of intimation, it shall automatically be treated as cancelled and the Collector shall proceed to allot the licence to other suitable applicant.

Explanation.—For the purposes of rules 24 and 25, "population" means the population of a town or a City, as the case may be, as ascertained from the latest Census Report, either provisional or final.¹

2. Extent व्याप्ती

1. ⁵(a) which shall exceed in area more than seventy square metres and which is, in the opinion of the Collector or the authorized officer by him in this behalf in writing is not adequate for storing the required stock: Provided that, this clause shall not be applicable to the existing premises, except for expansion, subject to seventy square meters.⁵
2. (b) which, if situated in areas within the jurisdiction of any Municipal Corporation or 'A' Class or 'B' Class Municipal Council, is within a distance of fifty metres, and if situated elsewhere, one hundred metres, from any educational or religious institution ²or any Statue of National Personality²; or
3. (c) which is situated within a distance of fifty metres from any bus stand, station or depot of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation ; or
4. ³(cl) 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.;³

   ⁴Provided that, if such National or State Highway passes through Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Nagar Panchayat or Cantonment Board area, such distance restrictions shall not apply.⁴

5. (d) which is not duly approved by the Collector or the Officer authorised by him in this behalf and is not, for reasons to be recorded in writing, certified by him to be otherwise suitable also for locating the shop before the grant the licence:
6. ⁶(e) which shall bear a name of the national personalities or any subsequent change in the name of the national personalities and shall bear the name of any of the Forts declared by the Central Government as protected monuments under the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 (7 of 1904) and by the State Government as protected monuments under the Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1960 (Mah. XII of 1961), as specified in the Schedule-11 appended to these rules.⁶

   Provided that nothing contained in this sub-rule shall apply in respect of an existing shop for which the licensee holds a valid licence in Form F.L. II immediately before the coming into force of the Bombay Foreign Liquor (Amendment) Rule, 1981.

   ¹Provided further that, if at any time after the commencement of the Bombay Foreign Liquor (Amendment) Rules, 2017 it is observed that, if any shop 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.;¹