Fixed Fee

Fixed fee, the term 'licence fee' or the term 'fixed fee' in the context of the Uttar Pradesh Excise Act, the Ordinance with its preamble and the Excise (Amendment) Rules, connotes the idea of payment of a sum by a person to the grantor of a licence as consideration for conferring upon such person by the grant of shop-licence, the exclusive privilege or right to carry on certain activities in respect of country liquor, or foreign liquor or intoxicating drug, within any local area of Uttar Pradesh State, the carrying of which activities would have been otherwise the exclusive privilege or right of the grantor (Government), State of Uttar Pradesh v. Sheopat Rai, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 8: AIR 1994 SC 813. [U.P. Excise Act (40 of 1910) s. 24A (as inserted by U.P. Excise (Amendment) Ordinance, 1972)]