(1) If the aggregate amount of the various dues, penalty and costs mentioned in the notice of demand served under section 4 is not deposited with the prescribed authority within three months of the date of such service or such extended period as the Chairman of the Board may from time to time allow, the debtor shall be deemed to be in default in respect of such amount and the same shall without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law or instrument or agreement.
(2) For the purpose of recovery of the amount specified in subsection (1) as arrear of land revenue, the prescribed authority shall have all the powers of the Collector under the Tamil Nadu Revenue Recovery Act, 1864 (Tamil Nadu Act II of 1864).
1[6-A. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 6, if the Board is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest or for the purpose of securing recovery of any dues payable to it, to publish the names and other particulars of any debtors, the Board may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, cause to be published in such manner as it thinks fit, the names and other particulars of such debtors :
______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 This section was inserted by section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (Recovery of Dues) Amendment Act, 1981 (Tamil Nadu Act 3 of 1982).
Suit to challenge liability to payment.
Recovery of dues, etc, if not paid.
Publication of information respecting debtors.
Electricity Board [1978: T.N. Act 29] (Recovery of Dues)
(2) No publication under this section shall be made in relation to any dues, penalty and costs mentioned in the notice of demand served under section 4, until the time for instituting a suit under section 5 has expired without institution of a suit, or the suit, if instituted, has been disposed of.
Explanation.--In the case of a firm, Company or other association of persons, the names of the partners of the firm, directors, managing agents, secretaries and treasurers, or managers of the Company, or the members of the association, as the case may be, may also be published if, in the opinion of the Board, the circumstances of the case justify it.