Establishments, delegation and withdrawal of powers

(1) The administration of the Excise Department and the collection of the excise revenue within a district shall ordinarily be under the charge of the Collector. (2) The State Government may, for the whole of Tripura or any specified local area, (a) appoint an officer of the Government to be the Excise Commissioner who shall, subject to such control as the State Government may direct from time to time be in charge of the administration of the provisions of this Act and rules made thereunder including collection of excise revenue; (b) appoint any other person to exercise all or any of the powers and to perform all or any of the duties, conferred and imposed on a Collector by or under this Act, either concurrently with, or in subordination to, or to the exclusion of, the Collector and subject to such control as the State Government may direct; (c) appoint any other officers of the Excise Department, ‘ to perform such powers and duties of the excise officer as the State Government may think fit; (d) appoint officer of the designation ‘Public Analyst’ to be in-charge of scientific analysis of samples and materials in relation to administration of this Act ; (e) order that all or any of the powers and duties assigned by or under this Act to any officer appointed under clause (c) of this sub-section shall be exercised and performed by any servant of the Government. or any other person ; (f) delegate to the Excise Commissioner, all or any of the powers conferred upon the State Government by or under this Act, except the powers to make rules; (g) withdraw from any officer or person all or any of the powers or duties conferred or imposed upon him by or under this Act; and (h) permit the delegation by the Excise Commissioner or the Collector, to any person or classes of persons specified in such notification, of any powers conferred or duties imposed upon him by or under this Act.