Bare ActsThe Assam Excise Act, 2000

Section 17

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(1) No intoxicant shall be sold except under the authority and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence granted by the authority prescribed in the rules framed under this Act in this behalf : THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, OCT, 11, 2000 799 e Exclusive priv­ ilege of manu facture and supply. Provided that — (1) on such conditions as may be determ ined by the State G overnm ent, a licence for sale granted under the Excise law in force in another province may be deemed to be a licence granted under this A c t; (2) a person licenced to cultivate or collect plant from which an intoxicating drug is produced, may sell without a licence those portions of the plant from w hich the intoxicating drug is manufactured or produced to any person licenced under this Act, to deal in the same, or to any officer to whom the Excise Commissioner may prescribe ; (3) nothing in this section applies to— (a) the sale of foreign liquor lawfully procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or on his behalf or on behalf of his representative in interest upon his quitting a station or after his decease ; (b) the sale of tari lawfully possessed by a person in possession of the tree from which it was drawn to a person licenced under this Act to manufacture or sale ta ri; (c) the sale of tari lawfully possessed and intended to be used solely for the manufacture of gur or molasses ; (d) the sale of tari lawfully possessed and intended to be used solely for the preparation o f food for dom estic consum ption, and not as an intoxicant or for the preparation of any intoxicating article for sale, and (e) the sale of tari lawfully possessed and intended to be used in the m anufacture of bread to a person holding a permit to use tari for the purpose of making bread ; (4) Any club which has transactions with its members in respect of foreign liquor, shall be deem ed to conducting retail sales and shall be required to take out a licence under this Act on paym ent of such fees and subject to such restrictions and on such conditions as the State Governm ent may prescribe.

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