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CHAPTER XVIII MARKETS, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS · Trades and occupations

Section 333: Power of Chairperson to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences

The New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994

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Text as published by India Code (Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice), as on 31 May 2026, with amendments up to the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026 (8 of 2026).

If the Chairperson is of opinion that any eating house, lodging house, hotel, boarding house, tea shop, coffee house, cafe, restaurant, refreshment room or other place where the public are admitted for repose or for consumption of any food or drink or where food is sold or prepared for sale or any theatre, circus, cinema house, dancing hall or similar other place of public resort, recreation or amusement is kept open without a licence or otherwise than in conformity with the terms of a licence granted in respect thereof, he may stop the use of any such premises for any such purpose for a specified period by such means as he may consider necessary.