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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Opium Act, 1857 Section 22

DUTY OF LANDHOLDER AND OTHERS TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All proprietors, farmers, tahsildars,

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Opium Act, 1857 Section 22 is part of Opium Act, 1857 - DUTY OF LANDHOLDER AND OTHERS TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All proprietors, farmers, tahsildars,. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

SECTION 22: DUTY OF LANDHOLDER AND OTHERS TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All proprietors, farmers, tahsildars, gumashtas and other managers of land shall give immediate information to the police or abkari darogas, or opium gumashtas, or to Magistrates, Collectors or officers in charge of the abkari mahal, or to the agents, their deputies or39 [the district opium officers], of all poppy which may be illegally cultivated within the estates or farms held or managed by them; and every proprietor, farmer, tahsildar, gumashta or other manager of land, who shall knowingly neglect to give such information, shall be liable to the penalties for illegal cultivation prescribed in the last preceding section.

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What does Opium Act, 1857 Section 22 provide?

Section Section 22 of the Opium Act, 1857 (DUTY OF LANDHOLDER AND OTHERS TO GIVE INFORMATION OF ILLEGAL CULTIVATION All proprietors, farmers, tahsildars,) 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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