eCourtsIndia
IndiaCode Laws
Act21
Enacted 1959

The Assam Ganja and Bhang Prohibition Act, 1953

In force 22 sections Assam

Act 21 of 1959

Preamble

The 30th May 1959 No.LJL.42/57 .- The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly which received the assent of the Governor is hereby published for general information. (Received the assent of the Governor on the 29th May 1959) ASSAM ACT No.XXI OF 1959 THE ASSAM GANJA AND BHANG PROHIBITION ACT, 1958 (Passed by the Assembly) [Published in the Assam Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 1st June 1959] An Act to prohibit cultivation, collection, possession, consumption manufacture and sale of [/ or]' Ganja in and of smuggling thereof into, the State of Assam ; and to restrict cultivation, collection, possession, consumption manufacture and sale of [/or ]' Bhang with a view to effect its ultimate prohibition in the State of Assant. Preamble,-WHEREAS it is expedient to prohibit cultivation, collec- tion, possession, consumption, manufacture and sale of Ganja in, and of 1. Substituted by the word 'or' by the - and Bhang Prohibition (Amend) Act NO XIII of 1961 smuggling thereof into, the State of Assam and to restrict cultivation, collec- tion, possession, consumption, manufacture and sale of Bhang with a view to effect its ultimate prohibition in the State of Assam. It is hereby enacted in the Ninth year of the Republic of India as follows :--

Sections

Type to filter. 22 sections.

  1. 1Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2Definitions
  3. 3Prohibition
  4. 4Punishment for contravention
  5. 5Punishment for allowing premises to be used for the commission of an offence
  6. 6Enhanced punishment
  7. 7Security for abstaining from commission of offences
  8. 8Attempts
  9. 9Abetments
  10. 10Power to issue warrants
  11. 11Power of entry, search and seizures, etc
  12. 13Mode of executing warrants, etc
  13. 14Report of arrest and seizure
  14. 15Production of persons arrested
  15. 16Power to invest Excise Officers
  16. 17Jurisdiction to try offences
  17. 18
  18. 19Punishment for vexatious entry, etc
  19. 20Indemnity
  20. 21Permits
  21. 22Repeal (Act I of 1910)
  22. 23Power to make rules

Provenance. Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/6fec7009-eebe-4c83-a2fb-3f498ef58916.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/e52c701c-7150-4dc7-bcdd-78c4e286193a/content).

Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Every one of the 22 sections of this Act has its own page. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.