Rent to be recovered by deduction from salary or wages of employee

Without prejudice to the provisions of section 7, where any person to whom public premises have been allotted is an employee of the State Government, or a local authority or a corporate authority and is in

1974: KAR. ACT 32] Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants arrears of rent payable in respect of such public premises allotted to him, the amount of rent due in respect of such premises shall on a requisition in writing in that behalf by the competent officer be liable to be deducted from the salary or wages payable to such person. On receipt of such requisition, the head of the Government department or officer under whom such person is employed or the officer of a local authority or a corporate authority disbursing the salary of such person, as the case may be, shall deduct from the salary or wages payable to such person the amount specified in the requisition, and pay the amount so deducted to the competent officer in satisfaction of the amount due by him.