Bare Act
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Opium Smoking Prohibition Regulation 1955
General195523 sections
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Opium Smoking Prohibition Regulation 1955 strictly controls the possession, manufacture, sale, and consumption of prepared opium across the islands. Applying to all residents and visitors, it imposes legal penalties on unregistered individuals who smoke, produce, trade, or transport prepared opium. The regulation also criminalizes operating or gathering in places used for opium smoking, while authorizing magistrates and law enforcement to conduct searches, seize contraband, and make arrests. By restricting personal use solely to registered smokers and banning wider trade, this law protects public health and curbs narcotics addiction in the territory.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Penalty for smoking prepared opium.
- 4. Presumption as to possession of prepared opium.
- 5. Penalty for manufacture, etc., of prepared opium.
- 6. Saving for manufacture, etc., for own use.
- 7. Penalty for keeping or using a place for smoking prepared opium.
- 8. Validation of certain proceedings.
- 9. Penalty for smoking prepared opium in assembly of two or more.
- 10. Presumption from presence of prepared opium, etc., in certain places.
- 11. Security for abstaining from commission of offences.
- 12. Power to search, seize and arrest.
- 13. Application of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to arrests and searches made under section 11.
- 14. Procedure to be followed in case of arrest or seizure.
- 15. Powers of Collector to investigate offences.
- 16. Bail.
- 17. Aid to Collector and Excise-officers.
- 18. Confiscation of prepared opium, etc.
- 19. Offences triable by certain Magistrates.
- 20. Cognizance of offences.
- 21. Protection of action taken in good faith.
- 22. Power to make rules.
- 23. Repeal.