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"It is well-settled principle that if an act is required to be performed by a private person within a specified time, the same would ordinarily be mandatory but when a public functionary is required to perform a public function within a time-frame, the same will be held to be directory unless the consequences thereof are specified."

Needless to say that the period prescribed under the proviso to Section 73A does not relate to the performance of public function but it is essentially in relation to an act to be performed by a private person or a body of private persons.