section 21A
Power of Police Officer to seize.
The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertising and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) (Chhattisgarh Amendment) Act, 2021Health20218 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974), any police officer, not below the rank of Sub-Inspector or any officer empowered by the State Government in this behalf, may search and seize any material or equipment, including all things used in the operation of the Hookah Bar, the hookah, the tobacco, the charcoal, the pipes and other related items used in smoking, if there is a reason to believe that a Hookah Bar is being operated in violation of the provisions of this Act.
- (2) Every officer seizing anything under sub-section
- (1) shall produce the same before the Magistrate having jurisdiction within twenty-four hours of such seizure.
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