(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 49 Rent to be

any person, who is an employee of the State recovered by Government or a local authority and who hasbeen deduction allotted any Board premises, may execute an from salary agreement in favour of the State Government or wages in providing that the State Government or the local certain authority, as the case may be, under or by whom cases. he/she is employed, shall be competent to deduct from the salary or wages payable to him/her such amount as may be specified in the agreement and to pay the amount so deducted to the Board in satisfaction of the rent due from him in respect of the Board premises allotted to him/her.

1. (2) On the execution of such agreement, the State Government or local authority, as the case may be, shall, if so required by the Board by requisition 218 in writing make the deduction of the amount specified in the requisition from the salary or wages of the employees specified in the requisition in accordance with the agreement and pay the amount so deducted to the Board. Penalty. 52. (1) Ifany amount due under the Act or the rules made thereunder is not paid by any person in compliance with the orders of the competent authority, such authority may, after giving such person an opportunity of being heard, impose upon him a penalty not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the amount due, if it has reason to believe that the person liable to pay the amount has wilfully failed to pay the same.
2. (2) If the penalty imposed under sub-section (7) is not paid within a period of thirty days the same shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue. Appeal. 53. (1) Any person aggrieved by an order of the competent authority may within thirty days from the date of—
   • (i) the service of notice under section 49 or section 50 ; or
   • (ii) the imposition of penalty under section 52, prefer an appeal to the Deputy Commissioner of the District in which the premises of the Board are situated or to any other officer, as the State Government may appoint in this behalf : Provided that the appellate officer may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of thirty days, if he is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.
3. (2) Where an appeal is preferred under sub-section (1), the appellate officer may stay the enforcement of the order of the competent authority for such period and on such conditions as he deems fit.
4. (3) Every appeal under this section shall be disposed of by the appellate officer as expeditiously as possible. 219