Obligation on landholders and others to give information in certain cases

In such areas as the State Government may, by notification, direct, and subject to such conditions and exceptions (if any) as it may, by notification, prescribe, whenever any intoxicants is manufactured, or any hemp plant is cultivated or collected, on any land, or in any place or village, in contravention of the provisions of this Act, all owners or occupiers of such land or place, and their agents, and all members of village councils, gaonburah, mauzadars, mandols and other village authorities in such village, as the case may be, shall in the absence of reasonable excuse, be bound to give information of the fact to a Collector, to a Magistrate or to an officer of the Excise, or Police Department as soon as such fact may come to their knowledge.