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Provided, firstly, that the Governor-General in Council may, by notification 
in the Gazette of India, require that a higher fee shall be payable, and 
that security shall be deposited, on the issue or renewal of any specified 
class of license or on the issue or renewal of licenses to any specified 
class of persons : 
Provided, secondly, that a fee of five rupees only shall be payable on the 
issue or renewal of a license to an owner of agricultural land to be in force ex¬ 
clusively within the village or villages in which such land is situate and within 
a local area which, if it includes more than one village, does not exceed fifteen 
hundred acres ; and 
Provided, thirdly, that the Local Government may exempt any specified 
class of peisons in any local area from the payment of fees on the issue or 
renewal of licenses which do not authorize the use of fire-arms. 
Duty of license- 
holders to produce 
and deliver up li¬ 
censes. 
11 . Every holder of a license granted under this Act 
shall be bound to— 
(a) produce such license for inspection at any time on being required 
to do so by any Magistrate, or by any Police-officer not below the 
rank of Inspector or within a forest by any Forest-officer not 
below the rank of Extra Assistant Conservator ; and 
