Section 85. Recovery of penalties due under bond

85. Recovery of penalties due under bond. —When any person, in accordance with any provision of this Act, or in compliance with any rule made thereunder, binds himself by any bond or instrument to perform any duty or act, or covenants by any bond or instrument that he, or that he and his servants and agents will abstain from any act, the whole sum mentioned in such bond or instrument as the amount to be paid in case of a breach of the conditions thereof may, notwithstanding anything in section 74 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), be recovered from him in case of such breach as if it were an arrear of land-revenue. 4 [ 85A. Saving for rights of Central Government. —Nothing in this Act shall authorise a Government of any State to make any order or do anything in relation to any property not vested in that State or otherwise prejudice any rights of the Central Government or the Government of any other State without the consent of the Government concerned.] 86. [ Repeals ].— Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1948 (2 of 1948), s. 2 and the Schedule. THE SCHEDULE .—[ Enactments repealed .] Rep. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid . 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government". 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Official Gazette". 3. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Crown". 4. Subs., ibid ., for section 85A. Earlier it was inserted by the A.O. 1937.