Chapter I Chapter I

Preliminary

1. (1) This Act may be called the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act, 1995.
2. (2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Mizoram except the three autonomous Districts of Chakma, Lai and Mara as constituted under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India.
3. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.

1. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
   • (a) "advertisement" includes any printed, cyclostyled, typewritten, hand-written or painted matter or a design or pictorial representation and also the distribution or display of such matter, design or representation on any wall, building or hoarding in a public place or an announcement by means of producing or transmitting light or sound, whether by cinematographic exhibition, neon signs or otherwise;
   • (b) "Armed Forces" means person under the control of the Army Act, 1950, the Air Force Act, 1950 and the Naval Act, 1957, and includes persons belonging to Assam Rifles, Border Security Forces, Central Reserved Police Forces and General Reserved Engineering Forces;
   • (c) "Buy", with all its grammatical variations, means any receipt for price paid in cash or in kind, and includes any receipt by gift, loan or otherwise;
   • (d) "Collector" means a Collector of Excise appointed under the Excise Act in force and includes an Officer appointed as such under sub-section
2. (3) of section 3 of this Act;
   • (e) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Prohibition or any other person duly empowered by the Government to exercise some or all of the powers of the Commissioner of Prohibition under this Act;
   • (f) "Denatured Spirit" means spirit so mixed with another substance in order to render the mixture unfit for human consumption, whether as a beverage, or internally as a medicine;
   • (g) "Government" means the State Government of Mizoram;
   • (h) "Intoxicant" means any liquor or intoxicating drug but does not include a drug as defined in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 or a toilet preparation under the Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955;
     • (i) "intoxication" means a state of mind and behaviour in which a person is incapable of knowing the nature of his actions or judging the consequences thereof;
   • (j) "Liquor" means any intoxicating liquor and includes Zu, Rakzu, Tinzu, Zupui and all liquid consisting of or containing alcohol and any substance which the Government may, by notification, declare to be liquor for the purpose of this Act;
   • (k) "Manufacture" includes every processes, whether natural or artificial, by which any liquor is produced or prepared, also re-distillation and every process for the rectification, flavouring, blending, or colouring of liquor;
   • (l) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules under this Act;
   • (m) "Prohibition Council" or "Prohibition Committee" means such body of officials and non-officials residing in Mizoram as may be constituted by the Government by notification to be published in the Official Gazette;
   • (n) "Prohibition Officer" means a person appointed under section 3 of this Act;
   • (o) "Registered Medical Practitioner" means a person registered under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956;
   • (p) "Sell" with all its grammatical variations, means any transfer including transfer by gift or loan or otherwise;
   • (q) "Spirit" means any liquor containing alcohol obtained by distillation, whether it is denatured or not and includes 'RAKZU';
3. (2) Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act, shall have the same meaning and definition as have been respectively assigned to them in the Excise Act in force and the rules made thereunder.