Section 11: Offences and contraventions

-(1) If any person unlawfully occupies any public premises, including land, other than public premises providing residential accommodation, he shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which shall be five per cent. of the land value for every year of occupation, or with both.

(2) If any person unlawfully occupies any public premises providing residential accommodation, such person shall be liable to penalty of forty times the rate of licence fee for that residential accommodation for the first month and shall increase in telescopic method from second month onwards at the rate of ten per cent. per month:

Provided that a person who, having been lawfully in occupation of any public premises or residential accommodation by virtue of any authority (whether by way of grant, allotment or by any other mode whatsoever) continues to be in occupation of such premises after such authority has ceased to be valid, shall not be guilty of the offence or contravention referred to in sub-section (1) or under this sub-section.

(3) If any person who has been evicted from any public premises under this Act, including land but other than public premises providing residential accommodation, again occupies the premises without authority for such occupation, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.

(4) If any person who has been evicted from any public premises for residential accommodation under this Act, again occupies the premises without authority for such occupation, he shall be liable to penalty of fifty times the rate of licence fee for that residential accommodation for the first month and shall increase in telescopic method from second month onwards at the rate of ten per cent. per month.

(5) Any magistrate convicting a person under sub-section (3) may make an order for evicting that person summarily and he shall be liable to such eviction without prejudice to any other action that may be taken against him under this Act.]