The Tripura Excise Act, 1987
The Tripura Excise Act, 1987
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The Tripura Excise Act, 1987 regulates the manufacture, import, export, transport, possession, and sale of alcoholic liquor and intoxicating drugs within the state of Tripura. It applies to residents, commercial manufacturers, distillers, vendors, and state excise authorities. The law establishes a framework for collecting state excise duties, granting licenses for commercial operations, prohibiting unauthorized production or distribution, and enforcing restrictions on employment and sales to minors. By empowering government authorities to monitor trade, inspect premises, and penalize illegal activities or adulteration, the Act helps generate public revenue while protecting public health, safety, and social order across the state.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title, Extent and Commencememt
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Power to declare “country liquor” and “foreigon liquor”
- 4. Definition of retail and wholesale
- 5. Establishments, delegation and withdrawal of powers
- 6. Control, Appeal and Revision
- 7. Restriction on Import
- 8. Restriction on Export or Transport
- 9. Power to prohibit Import, Export or Transport
- 10. Pass for import, export or transport
- 11. Licence required for manufacture
- 12. Drawing of tari in notified area
- 13. Establishment of distilieries, breweries or warehouse
- 14. License required for depositing or keeping intoxicant in warehouse or other place of storage
- 15. Payment of duty on removal from distillery, brewery, warehouse or other place of storage
- 16. Subject to the provision of the Act
- 17. Possession of intoxicant by licensed vendors etc.
- 18. License required for sale
- 19. Manufacture and sale of liquor in or near cantonments
- 20. Grant of exclusive privilege for manufacture and sale of country liquor or intoxicating drugs
- 21. Transfer of Exclusive privilege
- 22. Maintenance and use of measures, weights and instruments by licensed manufactures and vendors
- 23. Employment of young persons or woman by licensed vendors
- 24. Power to close shops temporarily
- 25. Power to impose duty on import, export, transport and manufacture
- 26. Ways of levying such duty
- 27. Payment for Grant of Exclusive Privilege
- 28. Preparation of list of places for which it is proposed to grant license for the retail sale of spirit
- 29. Publication of such list
- 30. Time for preparation and publication of such list
- 31. Submission of objections and opinions to Collector
- 32. Grant of licenses by Collector and submission of list with objections and opinions to Excise Commissioner
- 33. Finality of decisions of Excise Commissioner
- 34. Application of sections 28 to 33 to licenses for retail sale of intoxicants other than spirit
- 35. Exemption of certain licenses from sections 28 to 34
- 36. Fees for terms, conditions, and form of, and duration of licenses, permits and passes
- 37. Grant of license, permit etc.
- 38. Counterpart agreement by license, and security or deposit
- 39. Technical defects, irregularities and omissions
- 40. Power to cancel or suspend license, permit or pass
- 41. Power to withdraw license
- 42. Surrender of license
- 43. Bar to right of renewal and to compensation
- 44. Power of Collector to take grants under management or to transfer them
- 45. Penalty for unlawful import, export, transport, manufacture, possession, sale etc
- 46. Offences by Companies
- 47. Presumption as to offence where possession is not satisfactorily accounted for
- 48. Penalty for altering or attempting to alter any denatured spirit
- 49. Presumption as to offence under section 48 in certain cases
- 50. Presumption as to any spirit which contains any denaturant
- 51. Penalty for adulteration by licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant
- 52. Penalty for fraud by licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant
- 53. Penalty for certain unlawful acts of licensed vendors of their servants :-
- 54. Penalty for possession of intoxicant in respect of which an offence has been committed
- 55. Penalty for consumption in chemist’s shop, etc.
- 56. Penalty for certain acts by licensee or his servants
- 57. Import, export, transport, manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another
- 58. Criminal liability of licensee for acts of servant
- 59. Imprisonment under section 54 or section 55
- 60. Penalty on Excise Officers making vexatious search, seizure, detention or arrest or. refusing duty, or being guilty of cowardice
- 61. Penalty for offences not otherwise punishable
- 62. Penalty for contempt of court
- 63. Penalty for attempt to commit offence
- 64. Enhanced punishment after previous conviction
- 65. What things are liable to confiscation
- 66. Confiscation by the Judicial Magistrate or Collector
- 67. Power to compound offences and to release property liable to confiscation
- 68. Power to enter and inspect, and power to test and seize measures, etc
- 69. Power to arrest without warrant, to seize articles liable to confiscation, and to make searches
- 70. Power to issue warrant of arrest
- 71. Power to issue search warrant
- 72. Power of Collector or Magistrate to arrest or search without issuing a warrant
- 73. Power of Excise Officer to search without a warrant
- 74. Information and aid to Excise Officer
- 75. Duty of owners and occupiers of land and other persons to give notice of unlicensed manufacture
- 76. Power of Collector and certain Excise officers to investigate offences
- 77. Powers and duties of Collector and certain Excise officers investigation offences
- 78. Security and bail
- 79. Production of articles seized and persons arrested
- 80. Custody by Police of articles seized
- 81. Reports of arrests, seizures and searches
- 82. Execution of Collector’s warrant
- 83. Maximum period of detention
- 84. Application of certain provisions of the code of criminal procedure, 1973
- 85. Magistrate having jurisdiction to try offences
- 86. Intimation of certain prosecutions
- 87. Bar to transfer of trial on application of accused
- 88. Power of the State Government to make rules
- 89. Publication and effect of rules and notifications
- 90. Recovery of dues
- 91. Power of the State Government to exempt intoxicants from provisions of Act
- 92. Bar to certain suits
- 93. Limitation of suits and prosecutions
- 94. Repeal and saving
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