https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=458529 A club that supplies food through its catering department to members and their guests was held to fall within the licensing scheme under Section 394(1)(e) read with Part IV of Schedule M of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, 1888. The Court applied a purposive construction aimed at public hygiene, health and safety, and treated members as part of the relevant "public" for an eating house. It also held that "gain" is not limited to pecuniary profit and includes benefit or advantage, so the club derived gain from the catering activity. The result was that the club had to obtain the required licence. en-us Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:23:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=458529 A club that supplies food through its catering department to members and their guests was held to fall within the licensing scheme under Section 394(1)(e) read with Part IV of Schedule M of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, 1888. The Court applied a purposive construction aimed at public hygiene, health and safety, and treated members as part of the relevant "public" for an eating house. It also held that "gain" is not limited to pecuniary profit and includes benefit or advantage, so the club derived gain from the catering activity. The result was that the club had to obtain the required licence. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=458529