Adapted in G.

O.Ms.No.7, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 06.01.2016. Property confiscated when to vest in Government. Police to take charge of article seized. Regulation of liquor other than arrack. Act 17 of 1968. Act 15 of 1993.

14 [Act No.17 of 1995]

39[17. (1) If any Collector, Prohibition Officer or Magistrate

upon information obtained after such inquiry as he thinks necessary, has reason to believe that an offence under section 7, section 7A or section 8 has been committed, he may issue a warrant for a search for any liquor, materials, still, utensil, implement or apparatus in respect of which the

alleged offence has been committed. Any person who has

been entrusted with the execution of such a warrant may detain and search, and if he thinks proper, arrest any person found in the place searched, if he has reason to believe such person to be guilty of any offence under this Act and also seize and detain any excisable or other articles which he has reason to believe to be liable to confiscation under this Act.]

18. Whenever, a Collector, any Prohibition Officer or any Police Officer,

40[not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector], any officer in charge of a Police Station, has reason to believe that an offence under

40[section 7, section 7A or section 8] has been committed and that the delay occasioned by obtaining search warrant under section 17 will prevent the execution there of, he may, after recording the reasons and the grounds of his belief, at any time by day or night enter and search any place and may seize anything found therein which he has reason to believe to be liable to confiscation under this Act; and may detain and search and, if he thinks proper, arrest any person found in such place whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of any offence under this Act and also seize and detain any excisable or other article which he has reason to believe to be liable to confiscation under this Act.

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