The Chhattisgarh Excise Act, 1915

Preamble

( No. 2 of 1915) TABLE OF CONTENTS Page · Sections : CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Preamble 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. 6 3. Omitted. 4. Power to declare what shall be deemed to be "country liquor" and "foreign liquor" respectively. 5. Definition of retail and wholesale sale. 9 6. Saving of enactments. 9 CHAPTER II ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTROL 7. Establishment and powers thereof. 9 7-A. Establishment of flying squads. 10 CHAPTER III IMPORT, EXPORT AND TRANSPORT 8, Power to prohibit import, export or tansport. 10 9. Restriction on import, export or transport, 11 10. Requirement of pass for import, export or transport. 11 11. Passes for import, export or transport. 11 12. Passes issued by other authorities may be deemed Passes granted under this Act. CHAPTER IV MANUFACTURE, POSSESSION AND SALE 13. Licence required for manufacture, etc., of intoxicants. 11 14. Establishment or licensing of distilleries and ware-houses. 12 Sections : Page 15. Payment of duty on removal from distillery, brewery or place of storage. 16. Possession of intoxicants generally. 13 17. Licence required for sale of intoxicants. 13 18. Power to grant lease of right to manufacture, etc. 14 19. Lessee's permission to draw tari. 14 20. Manufacture and sale of liquor in Military Cantonments. 14 21. Duties of licensees with regard to measurement and testing. 14 22. Prohibition of employment of male persons under the age of twenty-one years and of women. 23. Prohibition of sale of liquor or intoxicating 15 drug to persons under the age of twenty-one years. 23-A. Prohibition of advertisements relating to liquor. 15 24. Closing of shops for the sake of public peace. 16 CHAPTER V DUTIES AND FEES 25. Duty on excisable articles. 16 26 Ways of levying such duty. 18 27. Payment for grant of leases. 18 27-A. Saving for duties being levied at commencement of the Constitution. 19 CHAPTER VI LICENCES, PERMITS AND PASSES 28. Form and conditions of licences etc. 19 29. Power to take security from licensee. 20 30. Technical defects, irregularities and omissions. 20 31. Power to cancel or suspend licence, etc. 20 32. Power to withdraw licences. 21 33. Surrender of licences. 22 33-A. Omitted. 22 THE MADHYA PRADESH EXCISE ACT, 1915 CHAPTER VII OFFENCES AND PENALTIES Sections : 34. Penalty for illegal import etc. 35. Penalty for altering to or attempting alter any denatured spirit or denatured spirituous preparation. 36. Penalty for illegal possession, 24 36-A, Penalty for opening, keeping or using any place as a common drinking-house or for having car: management or control of, or for assisting in conducting business of any such place. 24 36-B, Penalty for being found drunk or for purpose of drinking in a common drinking-house. 36-C, Penalty for permitting a place to be used for the com- mission by other person of ony offence punishable under section 34, section 35, section 36 or section 36-A. 36-D. (1) Execution of bond to abstain from commission of offences punishable under section 34 or section 36. (2) Form of bond and application of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure to all matters connected with such bond. 25 (3) Circumstance in which bond shall be void. 25 (4) Power of appellate Court or the High Courtto make order. 25 36-E. (1) Magistrate to require a person to show cause why the should not be ordered to execute a bond for good behaviour. (2) Application of provisons of the Code of Criminal Procedure to proceedings under Sub-Section (1). 25 37. Penalty for offences not otherwise provided for. 25 38. Penalty for certain unlawful acts of licensed vendors. 25 38-A. Penalty on licensed manufacturer or vendor of intoxicant for mixing or premitting to be mixed with such article any noxious drug or any foreign ingredient or any diluting or colouring substance. 39. Penalty for misconduct by licensee, etc. 26 40. Penalty for allowing consumption in chemist's shop etc. 26 Page 22 Sections: 40-A. Punishment for obstruction to or, assault on, officer, e

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Rules made under this Act

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