Vidhi Codex

Bare Act

The Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition and Control) Act, 2014

General201482 sections

This state law aims to stop and control the making, selling, and using of alcohol throughout Mizoram, excluding three designated autonomous districts. It comprehensively regulates every step of production, transport, import, and sales, including bars and breweries. The legislation also imposes taxes on these goods and handles their safe storage. Its primary purpose is to enforce prohibition to maintain public order and social welfare while ensuring the government earns revenue from controlled alcohol trade.

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  1. 0. Preamble
  2. 1. Short title, extent and commencement:
  3. 2. Definitions:
  4. 3. Establishment or Licensing of distilleries, breweries, wineries, bottling plants and bonded warehouses:
  5. 5. Payment of duty on removal from distillery, brewery, winery, bottling plant, bonded warehouse or other place of storage:
  6. 6. Maintenance and use of measures, weights and instruments by a licencee:
  7. 7. Retail and wholesale :
  8. 8. Limit of possession:
  9. 9. Grant of exclusive privilege of manufacture and sale of country liquor:
  10. 10. Transfer of exclusive privilege:
  11. 11. Power to declare dry days:
  12. 12. Power to close shops temporarily:
  13. 13. Restrictions on export, import or transport:
  14. 14. Grant of passes:
  15. 15. Fees, condition and form of licences, permits or passes :
  16. 16. Duration of licence, permit or pass:
  17. 17. Agreement to be made by licencee:
  18. 18. Accounts and returns:
  19. 19. Transfer of licence, permit or pass:
  20. 20. Technical defects, irregularities and omissions:
  21. 21. Power to cancel or suspend licence, permit or pass:
  22. 22. Power to cancel licence, permit or pass etc.:
  23. 23. No right to renewal, or compensation:
  24. 24. Levy of duty:
  25. 25. Mode of levy of duty:
  26. 26. Payment for grant of exclusive privilege:
  27. 27. Grant of exemption from payment of excise duty:
  28. 28. Power of Commissioner to take grants under management, or to transfer them:
  29. 29. Power to inspect places of manufacture, bottling plant, bonded warehouse, retail shop, bar etc. and to seize utensils etc.:
  30. 30. Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest:
  31. 31. Power of seizure and arrest in public places:
  32. 32. Magistrate to try offences under the Act:
  33. 33. Power to issue warrant of arrest and search:
  34. 34. Power of investigation, prosecution, procedure for investigation and trial:
  35. 35. Officers of Government, Members of Village/Local Council and Village Defence Party are bound to give information:
  36. 36. Arrest by private person or group of persons and procedure on such arrest:
  37. 37. Landlords and other to give information:
  38. 38. Report of arrest and seizure:
  39. 39. Appointment of departmental officer as expert:
  40. 40. Offences cognizable and non-bailable:
  41. 41. Excise & Narcotics and Police custody of articles seized:
  42. 42. Prohibition of manufacture, transport, import, export, and consumption of liquor, except under licence, permit or pass:
  43. 43. Punishment for contravention of Section 42:
  44. 44. Punishment for illegal possession in small quantity for personal consumption of any intoxicating liquor:
  45. 45. Prohibition of alteration of denatured alcohol:
  46. 46. Punishment for alteration of denatured alcohol etc.:
  47. 47. Penalty for selling spurious liquor:
  48. 48. Prohibition of mixing other substance with liquor:
  49. 49. Punishment for allowing premises to be used for the commission of an offence:
  50. 50. Possession of intoxicating liquors not obtained from a licenced vendor prohibited:
  51. 51. Penalty for misconduct by permit holder:
  52. 52. Attempt to commit offence under this Act:
  53. 53. Punishment for obstruction etc.:
  54. 54. Abetments:
  55. 55. Penalty for maliciously giving false information:
  56. 56. Employment of children under eighteen years by any licensee is prohibited:
  57. 57. Penalty for adulteration by licenced manufacturer, bottler, bonded warehouse owner, or vendor or his servant:
  58. 58. Penalty for certain unlawful acts of licenced vendors or their servants:
  59. 59. Penalty for possession of unlawfully imported, exported, transported and manufactured intoxicating liquor, etc.:
  60. 60. Penalty for failing to produce licence, permit or pass by licensee or his servant:
  61. 61. Import, export, transport, manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another:
  62. 62. Criminal liability of licensee for acts of servant:
  63. 63. Imprisonment under Section 61 or section 62:
  64. 64. Punishment for vexatious search, seizure or arrest:
  65. 65. Punishment for offence for which no punishment is provided:
  66. 66. Enhanced punishment after previous conviction:
  67. 67. No suspension, remission or commutation in any sentence awarded under this Act:
  68. 68. Presumption of culpable mental state:
  69. 69. Presumption to the commission of an offence:
  70. 70. Establishments, delegation and withdrawal of powers:
  71. 71. Control, appeal and revision:
  72. 72. Correction of errors:
  73. 73. Power of Government to make rules:
  74. 74. Power of Government to exempt intoxicating liquor from provisions of the Act:
  75. 75. Things liable to confiscation:
  76. 76. Confiscation by Magistrate:
  77. 77. Confiscation by Superintendent of Excise & Narcotics:
  78. 78. Power to compound offences:
  79. 79. Bar to legal proceeding:
  80. 80. Limitation of suit and prosecutions:
  81. 81. The State Prohibition Council and the District Prohibition Committee:
  82. 82. Repeal and savings:

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