(1) Without pre judice to the provisions of sec tion 55. any person who is an employee of the State Government or a local authority and who has been allotted an y Board premises, may execute an agree ment i!l favoor of the State Government or any local authority, as the case may be, providing that the State ---- --- ·--- Appeal 28 Government or the local authority, as the case m,ay be, under or by whom he is employed, shall be competent to deduct from the salary or wages payable to him such amoupt as may be specified in the agreement and to pay the amount so deducted to the Board in satisfac tion of the rent due by him in respect of the Board premises allotted to him.
(2) On the execution of such agreement, the State Government or local authority, as the case may be, shall if so required by the Board by reqlllisition in writi'ng make the deduction of the amount specified in the requisition from the salary or wages of the employee specified >in the requisition in accordance with the agreement and pay the amount so deducted to the Board :
Provided that no such agreement in favour of the local authority by the employee concerned shall be valid unless such local authority has agreed in writing to mal(e such deduction on account of rent from the salary or wages of the employee.