[6A. Submission of returns in City of Bombay for the years 1974 to 1985.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 6 as it existed immediately before the commencement of the Maharashtra Increase of Land Revenue and Special Assessment (Amendment) Act, 1986(Mah. XXVII of 1986), every person whose holding consists of land equal to 8 hectares or more, and every person who is liable to pay a special assessment of an amount exceeding two hundred rupees in the City of Bombay, and who was required to furnish returns for the years 1974 to 1985 (both inclusive) to the Tahsildar under that section, shall furnish to such officer as the Collector may, by order in writing, designate in this behalf, all such returns on or before the 1st day of October, 1986.
(2) Nothing in section 8 shall render any such person liable to be convicted of an offence in respect of his failure to file such returns within the time specified in section 6 before the commencement of the Maharashtra Increase of Land Revenue and Special Assessment (Amendment) Act, 1986 (Mah. XXVII of 1986).]