Prohibition of purchase, sale, and consumption of intoxicants

Prohibition of purchase, sale, and consumption of intoxicants. No liquor shall be bottled for sale and no intoxicant shall be sold, except under the authority and subject to the terms and conditions of a license granted in that behalf; provided that— (1) a person licenced under section 20 to cultivate the hemp plant may sell without a license those portions of the plant from which any intoxicating drug can be manufactured to any person licensed under this Act to deal in the same or to any officer whom the Financial Commissioner may appoint in this behalf; (2) a person having the right to the tari drawn from any tree may sell the same without a license to a person licensed to manufacture or sell tari under this Act; (3) on such conditions as the Financial Commissioner may determine, a license for sale under the excise law for the time being in force in other parts of the whole of India except part B States may be deemed to be a license granted in that behalf under this Act; (4) nothing in this section applies to the sale of any foreign liquor lawfully procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or on his behalf or on behalf of his representatives in interest upon his quitting a station or after his decease. (5) The State Government, if satisfied, that it is necessary or expedient so to do, may by notification, prohibit,— (a) the sale of any intoxicant or restrict such sale by such conditions as it may notify; and (b) the purchase and consumption of any intoxicants or restrict such purchase and consumption by such conditions as it may notify.