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The Punjab Excise Act, 1914 As Applicable to Haryana

The Punjab Excise Act, 1914 As Applicable to Haryana

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The Haryana Excise Act, 1914 regulates the manufacture, import, export, transport, possession, purchase, sale, and consumption of intoxicating alcohol and drugs within the state of Haryana. It applies to commercial liquor producers, distillers, retail vendors, property owners, transport operators, and individual consumers across the region. The law matters because it enables the state government to generate public revenue through excise duties and license fees while strictly controlling the availability of intoxicants. By setting age limits, penalizing illicit manufacturing and adulteration, enforcing shop closures for public order, and supervising trade operations, the legislation safeguards public safety and maintains legal order surrounding alcoholic substances.

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Chapter II ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTROL. →

  1. 8Superintendence and control of the excise administration and excise officers
  2. 9Excise Commissioners
  3. 10Other classes of excise officers
  4. 11Power to invest persons with special powers under this Act
  5. 12Local limits of jurisdiction
  6. 13Delegation
  7. 14Appeal
  8. 15Revision
  9. 16Import, export, and transport of intoxicants
  10. 17Power of State Government to prohibit import, export and transport, of intoxicants.
  11. 18Passes necessary for import, export and transport
  12. 19Passes for the import, export or transport of intoxicant may be granted by the Collector; Provided that passes for the import and export of such intoxicants as the Financial Commissioner may from time to time determine, shall be granted only by the Financial Commissioner.

Chapter IV MANUFACTURE, POSSESSION, SALE, PURCHASE AND CONSUMPTION. →

  1. 20Manufacture of intoxicants prohibited except under the provisions of the Act
  2. 21Establishment or licensing of distilleries
  3. 22Establishment or licensing of warehouses
  4. 23Removal of intoxicants from distillery, etc.
  5. 24Possession of intoxicants, exceptions, restrictions and prohibitions
  6. 25Prohibition of possession of intoxicants unlawfully manufactured, imported, etc.
  7. 26Prohibition of purchase, sale, and consumption of intoxicants
  8. 27Grant of lease of manufacture, etc.
  9. 28Manufacture and sale of liquor in military cantonments
  10. 29Prohibition of sale to persons under the age of eighteen years
  11. 30Prohibition of employment of men under the age of 25 years and of women
  12. 31Duty on excisable articles
  13. 32Manners in which duty may be levied
  14. 33Payment for grant of leases

Chapter VI LICENSES, PERMITS AND PASSES. →

  1. 34Fees for terms, conditions and form of, and duration of licenses, permits and passess
  2. 35Grant of licenses, for sale, ascertainment of public opinion
  3. 36Power to cancel or suspend licenses, etc.
  4. 37Power to cancel any other license
  5. 38Power to recover fee
  6. 39Power of Collector to take grants under management or to resell
  7. 40No compensation or refund claimable for cancellation or suspension of license, etc., under this section
  8. 41Power to withdraw licenses; Compensation in the case of withdrawal and refund of fee or deposit
  9. 42Technical irregularities in licenses, etc.
  10. 43No claim in consequence of refusal to renew a license, etc.
  11. 44Surrender of license
  12. 45Power to enter and inspect places of manufacture and sale
  13. 46Power of excise officers to investigate offences punishable under this Act
  14. 47Powers of arrest, seizure and detention
  15. 48Power of magistrate to issue warrant for search or arrest
  16. 49Power of excise officer to search without warrant and further powers of seizure, detention search and arrest
  17. 50Procedure relating to searches, etc.
  18. 51Police to aid excise officers
  19. 52Duty of land-holders and others to give information
  20. 53Duty of officer incharge of police station to take charge of article seized
  21. 54Power to close shops for the sake of public peace
  22. 55Measures, weights and testing instruments
  23. 56Power of State Government to exempt intoxicants from the provisions of the Act
  24. 57Bar of suits
  25. 58Power of State Government to make rules, previous publications of rules
  26. 59Powers of Financial Commissioner to make rules
  27. 60Recovery of dues
  28. 61Penalty for unlawful import, export, transport, manufacture, possession, sale, etc.
  29. 62Penalty for unlawfully selling to persons under eighteen or employing children or women
  30. 63Penalty for rendering or attempting to render denatured spirits fit for human consumption
  31. 64Penalty for fraud by licenced manufacturer or vendor or his servent
  32. 65Penalty for certain acts by licensee or his servant
  33. 66Penalty for consumption in chemists’ shops, etc.
  34. 67Manufacture sale or possession by one person on account of another.
  35. 69Attempt to commit offences punishable under the Act.
  36. 70Penalty for excise officer making vexatious search, etc.
  37. 71Report by investigating officer for instituting proceedings
  38. 72Certain offences to be non-bailable.
  39. 73Security for appearance in case of arrest without warrant
  40. 74Enhanced punishment after previous convinction
  41. 75Cognizance of offences
  42. 76Presumption as to commission of offence in certain cases
  43. 77Liability of employer for offence committed by employee or agent
  44. 78Confiscation of article in respect of which offence committed.
  45. 79Further provisions for confiscation
  46. 80Power of excise officers to compound offences
  47. 81Summary trial
  48. 82Savings

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