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Section 13 substituted by Act XXV of 1972, s. 2. 16 THE EXCISE ACT, 1958 (1901 A.D.) (a) establish or license the establishment and running of a warehouse wherein intoxicants may be deposited and kept without payment of duty ; (b) discontinue any warehouse so established or licensed ; (c) establish or license the establishment of a distillery or a brewery for manufacture of liquor or beer, as the case may be ; and (d) discontinue any distillery or brewery so established or licensed. (2) No intoxicant shall be removed from any distillery or brewery or warehouse established or licensed under this Act unless the duty, if any, payable under this Act has been paid in respect thereof.] 1[14. Sales of liquor or intoxicating drugs without licence prohibited.–– No liquor or intoxicating drug shall be sold without a licence from the Commissioner : Provided that,–– (a) a person licensed under section 11 of this Act to cultivate the hemp plant may sell without a licence those portions of the plant from which any intoxicating drug can be manufactured to any person who deals in the same and is licensed under this Act or to any officer whom the Commissioner may appoint in this behalf ; (b) nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of any foreign liquor lawfully procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or on his behalf or on behalf of his representatives-in-interest upon his quitting a station or after his demise.] 2[14-A. Regulation of the sale of liquor in the State.––(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law, rule, order, agreement or any other instrument or any order, judgment or decree of any Court the Government shall regulate the sale of country liquor in the State 3[by auctioning or operating departmental vends] the country liquor shops on such conditions and for such period as it may deem fit : Provided that the departmental shops existing for the sale of country liquor at the time of first auction shall continue to run at such places and for such period