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The Madhya Pradesh Excise Act, 1915

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This Act governs intoxicants such as liquor and drugs in Madhya Pradesh. It regulates their import, export, transport, manufacture, possession and sale, which need a pass or licence. The Act covers excise duties, licence conditions, and the powers of excise officers to search, seize and arrest, and punishes offences.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 4. Power to declare what shall be deemed to be "country liquor" and "foreign liquor", respectively
  4. 5. Definition of retail and wholesale sale
  5. 6. Saving of cnactments
  6. 7. Establishment and powers thereof
  7. 8. Power to prohibit import, export or transport
  8. 9. Restriction on import, export or transport
  9. 10. Requirement of pass for import, export or transport
  10. 11. Provided that in the case of duty-paid foreign liquor such passes shall be dispensed with, unless the State Government shall, by notification, otherwise direct with respect to any local area.
  11. 12. Passes issued by other authorities may be deemed passes granted under this Act
  12. 13. Licence required for manufacture, etc., of intoxicants
  13. 14. Establishment or licensing of distilleries and warehouses
  14. 15. Payment of duty on removal from distillery, brewery or place of storage
  15. 16. Possession of intoxicants generally
  16. 17. Licence required for sale of intoxicants
  17. 18. Power to grant lease of right to manufacture, etc
  18. 19. Lessee’s permission to draw tari
  19. 20. Manufacture and sale of liquor in Military cantonments
  20. 21. Duties of licensees with regard to measurement and testing
  21. 22. Prohibition of employment of male persons under the age of twenty-one years and of women
  22. 23. Prohibition of sale of liquor or intoxicating drug to persons under the age of twenty-one years
  23. 24. Closing of shops for the sake of public peace
  24. 25. Duty on excisable articles
  25. 26. Ways of levying such duty
  26. 27. Payment for grant of leases
  27. 28. Form and conditions of licences etc
  28. 29. Power to take security from licensee
  29. 30. Technical defects, irregularities and omissions
  30. 31. Power to cancel or suspend licence, etc
  31. 32. Power to withdraw licences
  32. 33. Surrender of licences
  33. 34. Penalty for illegal import etc
  34. 35. Penalty for altering or attempting to alter any denatured spirit or denatured spirituous preparation
  35. 36. Penalty for illegal possession
  36. 37. Penalty for offences not otherwise provided for
  37. 38. Penalty for certain unlawful acts of license vendors
  38. 39. Penalty for misconduct by licensee, etc
  39. 40. Penalty for allowing consumption in chemist's shop, etc
  40. 41. Manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another
  41. 42. Attempts to commit, and abetment of offences
  42. 43. Presumption as to commission of offence in certain cases
  43. 44. Criminal liability of licensee for acts of servants
  44. 45. Provided that no person other than the actual offender shall be punishable with imprisonment except in default of payment of fine.
  45. 46. Liability of certain things to confiscation
  46. 47. Order of confiscation
  47. 48. Power to compound offences
  48. 49. Penalty on officers making vaxatious search, seizure, detention or arrest
  49. 50. Land-holders and others to give information
  50. 51. Power to enter and inspect place of manufacture and sale
  51. 52. Power to arrest without warrant, to seize article liable to confiscation and to make searches
  52. 53. Power of magistrate to issue a warrant
  53. 54. Power to search without a warrant
  54. 55. Powers of Excise Officers in matters of investigaton
  55. 56. Report by investigation officer
  56. 57. Report by Excise Officer
  57. 58. All samples so taken shall also be sealed with the seal of the officer in charge of the police station.
  58. 59. Security for appearance in case of arrest without warrant
  59. 61. Limitation of prosecutions
  60. 62. Power to make rules
  61. 63. Provided that any such rules may be made without previous publication if the State Government considers that they should be brought into force at once.
  62. 64. Recovery of Government dues
  63. 65. Government line on property of defaulters
  64. 66. Power of State Government to exempt persons or intoxicants from the provisions of the Act
  65. 67. Protection to persons acting under the Act
  66. 68. Limitation of suits
  67. 69. Repeal of enactments

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