The Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition (Amendment) Act, 2013

(1) This Act may be called the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition (Amendment) Act, 2013. (2) It shall have the like extent as the Principal Act. (3) It shall come into force from their publication in the Mizoram Gazette.

After sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Principal Act, a new sub-section (3) shall be added, namely :- "(3) the State Government may appoint an officer or a class of officers in the Excise & Narcotics Department and Police Department as expert for the purpose of analysis or examination of alcoholic liquor".

In section 24 of the Principle Act, for the words "knowingly permits," the words, "unless he satisfactorily proved that he did not know" shall be substituted.

For section 58 of the Principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely :- "58. Officers empowered under section 54 of this Act shall have the power to submit a report under section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973."

AN ACT to further amend the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act, 1995 (herein referred to as the Principal Act) and to make the Act more effective in its implementation. It is enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mizoram in the Sixty fourth year of the Republic of India as follows :-