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The Punjab Excise Act, 1914

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Preamble1 - The Punjab Excise Act, 1914
Chapter1 - 1) This Act may be called the Punjab Excise Act, 1914
Chapter2 - The bond shall be in the form contained in schedule II and the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898,
Chapter3 - the period for which the license shall be granted;
Chapter4 - An order under this Section may also be made by an appellate court, or by the High Court when exercising its powers of
Chapter5 - The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may be notification declare, with respect either to the whole of the Union Territory
Chapter6 - Power to limit application of notifications, permits, etc. made under this Act
Chapter7 - Save as provided by Schedule I nothing contained in this Act shall effect the provisions of the Sea Customs Act, 1878,
Chapter8 - the size and description of stills, and other plant;
Chapter9 - (a) The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may by notification, appoint an Excise Commissioner and subject to the control of
Chapter10 - (a) There shall be such other classes of excise officers as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may, by notification,
Chapter11 - The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may, by notification, invest any person, not being an excise officer, with power to
Chapter12 - The jurisdiction of the Collector and other excise officers shall, unless the Excise Commissioner otherwise direct,
Chapter14 - An appeal shall lie from an original or appellate order of an excise officer in such cases or classes of cases and to
Chapter15 - (a) The Excise Commissioner may, at any time, revise any order passed by any excise officer subordinate to him
Chapter16 - No intoxicant shall be imported, exported or transported except "
Chapter17 - Power of sate government to prohibit import, export and transport of intoxicants
Chapter18 - Except as otherwise provided by any rule made under this Act, no intoxicant exceeding such quantity as the Lieutenant
Chapter19 - Passes for the import, export or transport of intoxicants may be granted by the Collector;
Chapter20 - Manufacture of intoxicants prohibited except under the provisions of the Act
Chapter21 - The Excise Commissioner subject to such restrictions or conditions as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may impose, may "
Chapter22 - Establishment or licensing of warehouses
Chapter23 - Removal of intoxicants from distillery etc
Chapter24 - 1) No person shall have in his possession any quantity of any intoxicant in excess of such quantity as the Lieutenant
Chapter25 - Prohibition of possession of intoxicants unlawfully manufactured, imported, etc
Chapter26 - No liquor shall be bottled for sale and no intoxicant shall be sold, except under the authority and subject to the
Chapter27 - 1) The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may lease to any man not below the age of twenty five years on such conditions and
Chapter28 - Within the limits of any military cantonments and within such distance from these limits as the Central Government in
Chapter29 - No licensed vendor and no person in the employ of such vendor or acting on his behalf shall sell or deliver any liquor
Chapter30 - No person who is licensed to sell any liquor or intoxicating drug for consumption on his premises shall, during the
Chapter31 - An excise duty, or countervailing duty, as the case may be at such rate or rates as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
Chapter32 - Subject to such rules regulating the time, place and manner, as the Excise Commissioner may prescribe, such duty shall
Chapter34 - Every license, permit or pass granted under this Act shall be granted "
Chapter35 - Grant of licenses for sale; ascertainment of public opinion
Chapter36 - Subject to such restrictions as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may prescribe, the Authority granting any license,
Chapter37 - When a license, permit or pass held by any person is cancelled under clause (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of Section 36,
Chapter38 - In the case of cancellation or suspension of license under clause (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of Section 36 the fee
Chapter39 - If any holder of a license granted under this Act, or any person to whom a lease has been granted under Section 27,
Chapter40 - No compensation or refund claimable for cancellation or suspension of licenses etc., under this section
Chapter41 - Whenever the authority which granted a license, permit or pass under this Act considers that such license, permit or
Chapter42 - No licence, permit or pass granted under this Act shall be deemed to be invalid by reason merely of any technical
Chapter43 - No person to whom a licence, permit or pass may have been granted, shall be entitled to claim any renewal thereof and
Chapter44 - No holder of a licence granted under this Act to sell any intoxicant shall surrender his licence except on the
Chapter45 - Any excise officer not below such rank, as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may prescribe, may
Chapter46 - Powers of excise officers to investigate offences punishable under the Act
Chapter47 - Any officer of the excise, police, salt or land revenue department, not below such rank and subject to such
Chapter48 - Power of magistrate to issue warrant for search or arrest
Chapter49 - Whenever any excise officer, not below such rank as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may, by notification prescribe,
Chapter49A - Any excise officer, not below such rank as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may, by notification prescribe, may by
Chapter50 - Save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 relating to
Chapter51 - All police officers are required to aid the excise officers in the due execution of this Act upon request made by such
Chapter52 - (a) Every owner or occupier of land or any building and the agent of any owner of land or any building on which "
Chapter53 - Every officer in-charge of a police station shall take charge of, and keep in safe custody, pending the orders of a
Chapter54 - The District magistrate or a Sub-Division Magistrate, by notice in writing to the licensee, may require that any shop
Chapter55 - Measures, weights and testing instruments
Chapter56 - Power of Lieutenant Governor to exempt intoxicants from the provisions of the Act
Chapter57 - No suit shall lie in any civil court against the Government or any officer or person for damages for any act in good
Chapter58 - The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may, by notification, make rules for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
Chapter59 - The Excise Commissioner may, be notification, make rules "
Chapter60 - The following moneys namely "
Chapter61 - Whosoever, in contravention of any Section of this Act or of any rule, notification issued or given thereunder or order
Chapter62 - If any licensed vendor, or any person in his employ or acting on his behalf
Chapter63 - Whoever renders or attempts to render fit for human consumption any spirit, whether manufactured in India or not, which
Chapter64 - If any licensed manufacturer or licensed vendor or person in his employ or acting on his behalf
Chapter65 - Whoever, being the holder of license, permit or pass granted under this Act, or being in the employ of such holder or
Chapter66 - 1) If any chemist, druggist, apothecary or keeper of a dispensary allows any intoxicant which has not been bonafide
Chapter67 - 1) When any intoxicant has been manufactured or sold or is possessed by any person on account of any other person and
Chapter68 - Whoever is guilty of any act or intentional omission in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or of any
Chapter68A - Whoever, having been convicted of an offence under sub-section (1) of section 61 of this Act, shall be guilty of a
Chapter69 - Attempt to commit offences punishable under the Act
Chapter69A - 1. Whenever any person is convicted of an offence punishable under sections 61, 63 or 69 and the court convicting him
Chapter70 - Penalty for excise officer making vexations search, etc
Chapter71 - If on an investigation by an excise officer, empowered under section 46 sub-section (1), it appears that there is
Chapter72 - All offences punishable under this Act shall be bailable within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
Chapter73 - The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may empower any excise officer to grant bail, notwithstanding that such officer is not
Chapter75 - No magistrate shall take cognizance of an offence, punishable
Chapter76 - Whenever any person is found in possession of
Chapter76A - Presumption as to commission of offences under section 63 of the Act
Chapter77 - The holder of a licence, permit or pass under this Act, as well as the actual offender, shall be liable to punishment
Chapter78 - Whenever an offence punishable under this Act has been committed
Chapter79 - When there is reason to believe that an offence under this Act has been committed, but the offender is not known or
Chapter80 - 1) The Collector may accept from any person who is reasonable suspected of having committed an offence punishable under
Notification1 - notification No.3246-39
Schedule1 - SCHEDULE II
Schedule5 - SCHEDULE II

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