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BOMBAY PROHIBITION ACT, 1949, (Maharashtra) Section 46 - Bare Act

StateMaharashtra Government
Year
Section Title Visitor's Permit
Act Info:

1 [46. Visitor'sPermit

(1) The State Governmentmay, by rules or an order in writing, authorise an officer to grant a visitor'spermit for the purchase, possession, use or consumption of foreign liquor to aperson who-

(a) (i) is a citizen of a foreign country, or a citizen of India and residesin any part of India, where consumption of alcoholic liquor is not generallyprohibited by law; or

(ii) is a citizen of a foreign country or is acitizen of India and resides in any part of India, where consumption of liquoris prohibited by law, but has been consuming such liquor under a permit orother authorization; and

(b)visits the State for a period of not more than a week.

(2) Such permit shall be granted ordinarily for aperiod not exceeding one week at any one time; but may be extended from time totime for further periods not exceeding one week at a time, so, however, thatthe total period shall not exceed in the aggregate one month.]

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1. Section 46 was Substituted for the original byBom. 22 of 1960, s. 30.

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