[(1) Save as otherwise provided by this Act, no person other than a person who has to perform some duty in connection with an entertainment or a duty imposed upon him by any law, shall be admitted to any entertainment [except with a valid printed ticket or complimentary ticket.] ]
(2) [Every proprietor of any entertainment in respect of which the entertainment duty is payable under section 3, shall apply to the prescribed officer by the fifteenth day of January of every calendar year, to allow him to pay the entertainment duty due and payable, and the prescribed officer may, on receipt of such application, allow the proprietor, on such conditions as the State Government may specify by general or special order issued in that behalf, to pay the amount of entertainment duty due]
(a) by a consolidated payment of a percentage, to be fixed by the [[State] Government], of the gross sum received by the proprietor on account of payments for admission to the entertainment and on account of the duty;
(b) in accordance with returns of the payments for admission to the entertainment and on account of the duty;
(c) in accordance with the results recorded by any mechanical contrivance which automatically registers the number of persons admitted :
[Provided that, the State Government may suo-motu, by general or special order in the Official Gazette, direct the proprietor of any entertainment or class of entertainment to pay the amount of duty due, in accordance with the returns of the results recorded by any mechanical contrivance referred to in clauses (b) and (c), as the case may be:]
[Provided further that, the prescribed officer may, within fifteen days from the date of receipt of the application as aforesaid, reject the application after giving an opportunity of being heard to the applicant and recording reasons for such rejection.]
(3) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section [**] shall not apply to any entertainment in respect of which the duty due is payable in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2).