Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power of State Government to make rules (1) The State Government may make rules to carry out the objects of this Act or any other law for the time being in force relating to the Excise-revenues. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of foregoing provisions, the State Government may make rules- (a) for prescribing the powers and duties of Officers of the Excise Department; (b) for regulating the delegations of any powers by the Board, the Commissioner of a Division, the Excise Commissioner or Collectors under Section 7, clause (g); (c) for declaring in what cases or classes of cases or to what authorities appeal shall lie from orders, whether original or appellate, passed under this Act or under any rule made hereunder, and for prescribing the time and manner for presenting and the procedure for dealing with appeals; (d) for regulating the import, export or transport of any intoxicant; (e) for regulating the periods for which licences for the wholesale or retail vend of any intoxicant may be granted, and the number of such licences which may be granted for any local area; (f) for prohibiting the grant of licence for the retail sale of any intoxicant at any place or within any local area described in the rules or for defining the places in the vicinity of which shops for the retail sale of any intoxicant shall not ordinarily be licensed. (g) for prohibiting the grant to specified classes of persons of licences for the retail sale of any intoxicant (h) for declaring, either generally or in respect of areas described in the rules, the persons or classes of persons to whom any intoxicant may or may not be sold; (i) for regulating the procedure to be followed and prescribing the matters to be ascertained before any licence for the wholesale or retail vend of any intoxicant is granted for any locality; (j) for restricting the exercise of any of the powers conferred by Clause (a) of Sub- section (1) of Section 68 and by Sections 69 and 70; (k) for declaring the Excise Officers to whom and the manner in which information or aid should be given under Section 75. (l) for the grant of expenses to witnesses; (m) for the grant of compensation for loss of time to persons released by any Excise Officer under this Act on the ground that they have been improperly arrested, and to persons charged before a Magistrate with the offences punishable under this Act and subsequently acquitted; and (n) for prescribing restrictions or modifications in the application to Excise Officers of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, V of 1898, relating to powers of Police Officers which are referred to in Section 78, Sub-section (1) of this Act: (3) The powers conferred by this Section for making rules are subject to the conditions that the rules be made after previous publication. Provided that any such rules may be made without previous publication if the State Government considers that they should be brought into force at once.