Power of Municipal Commissioner or Chief Officer to prevent use of premises in particular areas for purposes referred to in section 256

(1) The Municipal Commissioner or Chief Officer may give public notice of his intention to declare that in any area specified in the notice no person shall use any premises for any of the purposes referred to in sub-section (1) of section 256 which may be specified in such notice. (2) No objections to any such declarations shall be received after a period of one month from the publication of the notice. (3) The Municipal Commissioner or Chief Officer shall consider all objections received within the said period, giving any person affected by the notice an opportunity of being heard during such consideration and may thereupon make a declaration in accordance with the notice published under sub-section (1), with such modifications, if any, as he may think fit but not so as to extend its application. (4) Every such declaration shall be published in such manner as may be prescribed and shall take effect from the date of its publication. (5) No person shall, in any area specified in any declaration published under sub-section (4), use any premises for any of the purposes referred to in sub-section (1) of section 256 and specified in the declaration and the Municipal Commissioner or Chief Officer shall have the power to stop the use of any such premises by such means as he considers necessary. (6) Whoever uses any premises for any of the purposes referred to in sub-section (1) of section 256 contrary to any declaration published under sub-section (4) shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.