5. Appellate authority. -(1) For the purposes of the Act and these rules the appellate authority to whom an appeal shall lie from an order of the licensing or other authority specified in column (1) of the Table below, shall be that specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) thereof:
TABLE
Authority Appellate authority
(1) (2)
(a)
Tahsildar; or Ist or 2nd Class Magistrate, or Sub-Divisional Magistrate. District Magistrate
(b) Additional District Magistrate,
District Magistrate (i)
Commissioner, of the Divisions. Union Territory, the Administrator
thereof, or
(ii) In the States of Madras, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, the Borad of Revenue, or
(iii) in the States of Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Gujarat and any other State, not being a State mentioned in entry (ii) above, in which there is no post of Commissioner of a Division, the State Government
(c) Commissioner of Police Commissioner of the Division or in an Union Territory, the Administrator thereof.
(d) Commissioner of a Division State Government
(e)
Head of Indian Mission, or Political
Central Government Officer
(f) Other specially empowered officer Authority that empowered
(2) For the purpose of sub-section (6) of Section 17 of the Act, the licensing authority shall be deemed to be subordinate to the appellate authority in cases. -
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