Recovery of penalties due under bound

When any person, in compliance with any rule under this Act, binds himself by any instruments to perform any duty or Act or covenants by any instruments that he or that he and his servants and agents, will abstain from any Act, the whole sum mentioned in such instrument as the amount to be paid in case of a breach of the conditions thereof may notwithstanding anything in section 74 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, be recovered from him in case of such breach under the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913 (Bengal Act 3 of 1913) or under any other law for the time being in force.