Act Text
Preamble1 - Opium Act, 1857
Section1 - SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT
Section3 - APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS TO SUPERINTEND PROVISION OF OPIUM
Section4 - OFFICERS AMENABLE TO CIVIL COURTS - The Opium Agents, and their sub- ordinate officers of every description, are
Section5 - SANCTION TO SUIT BY AGENT The Opium Agents shall not in their official capacity institute any suit in a Civil Court
Section6 - POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO APPOINT OFFICER TO CONDUCT SUITS 13 [The Central Government] may take upon itself, or
Section7 - BOARD TO FIX LIMITS OF CULTIVATION AND PRICE TO BE PAID TO CULTIVATORS 14 [* * *] 15 [The Central Government] shall
Section8 - ISSUE OF LICENCES The 16 [district opium officers] or other officers en- trusted with the superintendence of the
Section9 - CULTIVATOR TO HAVE OPTION TO ENGAGE TO CULTIVATE OR NOT, OFFICERS COMPELLING CULTIVATOR TO ENGAGE LIABLE TO BE
Section10 - PENALTY ON CULTIVATOR RECEIVING ADVANCES AND NOT CULTIVATING FULL QUANTITY OF LAND--ADJUDICATION OF PENALTY If it shall
Section11 - DELIVERY OF OPIUM PRODUCED All opium the produce of land cultivated with poppy on account of 20 [the Central
Section12 - Opium to be weighed and classified by district opium officer - All opium delivered by the cultivators to the 24
Section13 - WEIGHING AND EXAMINATION AT SADAR FACTORY All opium forwarded by the 28 [receiving] officers to the sadar factory, and
Section14 - CONFISCATION OF ADULTERATED OPIUM When opium delivered by a cultivator, either to a30 [receiving] officer, or at the
Section15 - WEIGHTS AND SCALES The weights and scales made use of in the sadar factories and at the district to this shall be
Section16 - ADJUSTMENT OF CULTIVATORS' ACCOUNTS AND RECOVERY OF BALANCE BY DISTRESS The accounts of the cultivators shall be
Section17 - PENALTY ON OFFICER TAKING BRIBES Any officer of the Opium Department who shall receive any fee, gratuity, perquisite or
Section18 - EXACTIONS BY LANDHOLDER FROM RAIYAT RECOVERABLE, TOGETHER WITH PENALTY, IN SUMMARY SUIT BEFORE COLLECTOR If any
Section19 - PENALTY FOR EMBEZZLEMENT OF OPIUM BY CULTIVATOR Any cultivator entering into engagements for the cultivation of the
Section20 - PENALTY
Section21 - PENALTY FOR UNLICENSED CULTIVATION Any person who shall cultivate the poppy without license from a38[district opium
Section22 - DUTY OF LANDHOLDER AND OTHERS TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All proprietors, farmers, tahsildars,
Section23 - DUTY OF POLICE AND OTHER OFFICER TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All police and abkari darogas, and opium
Section24 - POLICE OR ABKARI DAROGA HOW TO PROCEED IN CASE OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION Whenever a police or abkari daroga or opium
Section25 - LANDHOLDERS, ETC., MAY ATTACH IN CASE OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION Proprietors, farmers, tahsildars, gumashtas and other
Section26 - ADJUDICATION OF PENALTIES Except as otherwise herein provided, all foes, penalties and confiscations prescribed by this
Section27 - IMPRISONMENT IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT OF FINE When any person is sentenced to pay any fine or penalty under this Act, such
Section28 - PUNISHMENT FOR REPETITION OF OFFENCES Whenever any person shall be convicted of an offence against this Act after
Section29 - PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT UNDER SECTION 28 Every person who shall be imprisoned under the last preceding section, or on
Section30 - DISPOSAL OF FINES AND FORFEITURES One-halt of all fines and penalties levied from persons convicted of offences under
Section31 - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MAY ALLOW FREE CULTIVATION OF POPPY AND MANUFACTURE OF OPIUM IN ANY DISTRICT The Central Government
Section32 - PUBLICATION AND LAYING OF RULES
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