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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Opium Act, 1857 Section 21

PENALTY FOR UNLICENSED CULTIVATION Any person who shall cultivate the poppy without license from a38[district opium

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Opium Act, 1857 Section 21 is part of Opium Act, 1857 - PENALTY FOR UNLICENSED CULTIVATION Any person who shall cultivate the poppy without license from a38[district opium. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

SECTION 21: PENALTY FOR UNLICENSED CULTIVATION Any person who shall cultivate the poppy without license from a38[district opium officer] or other officer duly authorized in that behalf, and any person who shall in any way cause, en- courage or promote such illegal cultivation, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, unless the quantity of land so illegally cultivated shall exceed twenty bighas, in which case the fine may be at the rate of twenty-five rupees per bigha; and the poppy plants shall be destroyed, or, if any opium have been extracted from them, it shall be seized and confiscated. If the opium shall have been extracted and shall not be seized, the offender shall be liable to a further fine not exceeding the rate of thirty-two rupees per bigha of land illegally cultivated.

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What does Opium Act, 1857 Section 21 provide?

Section Section 21 of the Opium Act, 1857 (PENALTY FOR UNLICENSED CULTIVATION Any person who shall cultivate the poppy without license from a38[district opium) is reproduced on this page as part of the Opium Act, 1857. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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