Chhattisgarh Excise Act, 1915
Bare Act · 1915
In the syllabus of: CG APO · CG Civil Judge
- Act number
- 2 of 1915
- Enacted
- 10 April 1915
- Contents
- 87 sections · 8 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 4 – Power to declare what shall be deemed to be "country liquor" and "foreign liquor", respectively
- Section 5 – Definition of retail and wholesale sale
- Section 6 – Saving of enactment
Chapter II — Establishment and Control
- Section 7 – Establishment and powers thereof (preview)
- Section 7A – Establishment of flying squads (preview)
Chapter III — Import, Export and Transport
- Section 8 – Power to prohibit import, export or transport (preview)
- Section 9 – Restriction on import, export or transport (preview)
- Section 10 – Requirement of pass for import, export or transport (preview)
- Section 11 – Passes for import, export or transport (preview)
- Section 12 – Passes issued by other authorities may be deemed passes granted under this Act (preview)
Chapter IV — Manufacture, Possession and Sale
- Section 13 – Licence required for manufacture, etc., of intoxicants (preview)
- Section 14 – Establishment or licensing of distilleries and warehouses (preview)
- Section 15 – Payment of duty on removal from distillery, brewery or place of storage (preview)
- Section 16 – Possession of intoxicants generally (preview)
- Section 17 – Licence required for sale of intoxicant (preview)
- Section 18 – Power to grant lease of right to manufacture, etc (preview)
- Section 18A – Exclusive privileges of manufacture sale etc. may be granted (preview)
- Section 19 – Lessee's permission to draw tari (preview)
- Section 20 – Manufacture and sale of liquor in Military Cantonments (preview)
- Section 21 – Duties of licensees with regard to measurement and testing (preview)
- Section 22 – Prohibition of employment of male persons under the age of twenty-one years and of women (preview)
- Section 23 – Prohibition of sale of liquor intoxicating drug to persons under the age of twenty-one years (preview)
- Section 23A – Prohibition of Advertisements relating to liquor (preview)
- Section 24 – Closing of shops for the sake of public peace (preview)
Chapter V — Duties and Fees
- Section 25 – Duty on excisable articles (preview)
- Section 26 – Ways of levying such duty (preview)
- Section 27 – Payment for grant of leases (preview)
- Section 27A – Savings for duties being levied at commencement of the Constitution (preview)
Chapter VI — Licences, Permits and Passes
- Section 28 – Form and conditions of licence, etc (preview)
- Section 28A – Payment of Supervision Charges (preview)
- Section 29 – Power to take security from licensee (preview)
- Section 30 – Technical defects, irregularities and omissions (preview)
- Section 31 – Power to cancel or suspend licence, etc (preview)
- Section 32 – Power to withdraw licenses (preview)
- Section 33 – Surrender of licences (preview)
Chapter VII — Offences and Penalties
- Section 34 – Penalty for unlawful manufacture, transport, possession, sale, etc (preview)
- Section 35 – Penalty for altering or attempting to alter any denatured spirit or denatured spirituous preparation (preview)
- Section 36 – Penalty for illegal possession (preview)
- Section 36A – Penalty for opening, keeping or using any place as a common drinking house or for having care, management or control of, or for assisting in conducting, business of any such place (preview)
- Section 36B – Penalty for being found drunk or for purpose of drinking in a common drinking-house (preview)
- Section 36C – Penalty for permitting a place to be used for the commission by other person of any offence punishable under Section 34, Section 35, Section 36 or Section 36-A (preview)
- Section 36D – Execution of bond to abstain from commission of offences punishable under Section 34 or Section 36 (preview)
- Section 36E – Magistrate to require a person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for good behaviour (preview)
- Section 36F – Penalty for consumption of alcohol at public places (preview)
- Section 37 – Penalty for offence not otherwise provided for (preview)
- Section 38 – Penalty for certain unlawful acts of licensed vendors (preview)
- Section 38A – Penalty on licensed manufacturer or vendor of intoxicant for mixing or permitting to be mixed with such article any noxious drug or any foreign ingredient or any diluting or colouring substance (preview)
- Section 39 – Penalty for obstruction of authorized officers etc. (preview)
- Section 40 – Penalty for allowing consumption in chemist's shop, etc (preview)
- Section 40A – Punishment for obstruction to, assault on officer etc (preview)
- Section 41 – Manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another (preview)
- Section 42 – Attempts to commit, and abatement of offences (preview)
- Section 43 – Presumption as to commission of offences in certain cases (preview)
- Section 44 – Criminal liability of licensee for acts of servants (preview)
- Section 45 – Enhanced punishment after previous conviction (preview)
- Section 46 – Liability of certain things to confiscation (preview)
- Section 47 – Order of confiscation (preview)
- Section 47A – Confiscation of seized intoxicants, articles, implements, utensils, materials, conveyance etc (preview)
- Section 47B – Appeal against the order of confiscation (preview)
- Section 47C – Revision before the Court of sessions against the order of Appellate Authority (preview)
- Section 47D – Bar of jurisdiction of the Court under certain circumstances (preview)
- Section 48 – Power to compound offences and imposed penalty (preview)
- Section 48A – Special provision for the imposition of penalty by the Excise Commissioner or Collector (preview)
- Section 49 – Penalty on officers making vexatious search, seizure, detention or arrest (preview)
- Section 49A – Penalty for import etc. of liquor unfit for human consumption or for altering or attempting to alter denatured spirituous preparation (preview)
Chapter VIII — Detection, Investigation and Trial of Offences
- Section 50 – Land-holders and others to give information (preview)
- Section 51 – Power to enter and inspect places of manufacture and sale (preview)
- Section 52 – Power to arrest without warrant to seize article liable to confiscation and to make searches (preview)
- Section 53 – Power of Magistrate to issue a warrant (preview)
- Section 54 – Power to search without a warrant (preview)
- Section 54A – Arrest without warrant for obstruction or assault (preview)
- Section 55 – Powers of Excise Officers in matters of investigation (preview)
- Section 56 – Report by investigation officer (preview)
- Section 57 – Report by Excise Officer (preview)
- Section 57A – Police to take charge of articles seized (preview)
- Section 58 – Arrests, searches etc., how to be made (preview)
- Section 59 – Security for appearance in case of arrests without, warrant (preview)
- Section 59A – Certain offence under the Act to be non-bailable (preview)
- Section 61 – Limitation of prosecutions (preview)
- Section 61A – Tender of pardon, accused person turning approver (preview)
- Section 61B – Definitions (preview)
- Section 61C – Scope and extent (preview)
- Section 61D – Exemption of members of the Scheduled Tribes from certain provisions of the Act (preview)
- Section 61E – Power of Gram Sabha to regulate and prohibit manufacture sale etc. of intoxicants (preview)
- Section 61F – Enforcement of the decisions of Gram Sabha (preview)