5A. Licence to sell wine and provisions relating thereto वाइन विक्रीचा परवाना आणि त्यासंबंधीच्या तरतुदी

¹(vif) First day of Prohibition Week i.e. 2nd October.]

(viii) Kartiki Ekadashi.]

³[(c) (1) forty eight hours, ending with the hours fixed for the conclusion of the poll in relation to any general election or by-election to the House of people or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is taken in the constituency in which such premises are located and on the counting day or days.]

(2) the day or days on which poll in relation to any general election or by-election to any local authority in the State is taken in the constituency in which such premises are located and a day immediately before the day of poll and on the counting day.]

(d) such special occasions and in such area as the Collector may, after giving a notice of not less than seven days in the Official Gazette, and in any local newspaper having wide circulation in such area, specify in this behalf

(C) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clause (a) of clause (b) of this sub-rule, the Collector may, in consultation with the concerned authorities of a neighbouring State declare by a notification published in Official Gazette, and in any local newspaper having wide circulation in such area being adjacent to a neighbouring State, as may be specified in the notification, two days of closure excluding Wednesday and Thursday or either of them, and on such declaration the licensed premises in such adjacent areas and in respect of which any such licence has been granted shall remain closed every week on the two days so declared.

(D) For the purposes of¹paragraph (vi) in sub-clause (8) of clause (B) of this sub-rule] the Collector shall, as far as possible, before the commencement of each licensing year, declare by a notification published in the Official Gazette, and in any local newspaper having wide circulation in the area, the day or days of important fairs or, as the case may be, of the pay day during which, and the area in which, the licensed premises shall remain closed :

Provided that, where such a declaration is not made before the commencement of the licensing year, the Collector shall make the declaration at any other suitable time thereafter but the notification in that behalf shall be published at least seven days before the day or days of such closure.

(E) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (B) and (C) of this sub-rule, the licensed premises in respect of which a licence in Form 'E' in the Schedule hereto has been granted may be kept open during the closure days for serving mild liquors ⁴or wines or both] solely to persons holding foreign passports during the prescribed hours.

(F) No licensee shall be entitled to any compensation for closure of his licensed premises under clauses (B) and (C) of this sub-rule.]

5A. Licence to sell wine and provisions relating thereto वाइन विक्रीचा परवाना आणि त्यासंबंधीच्या तरतुदी

(1) The person ⁶] desiring to sell wine by retail to any person holding permit for in Form FLX-C issued under rule 70D of the Bombay Foreign Liquor Rules, 1953, for consumption on the premises ⁶] shall apply in Form "E-1" of the Schedule to the Collector for a licence in Form "E-2" of the Schedule appended to these rules, accompanied by a chalan evidencing payment of an application fee of one hundred rupees.