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Licence required for manufacture :– (1) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, the Collector shall be competent to grant licence for the purpose as specified in this Act. (2) No intoxicant shall be manufactured nor any bottling of liquor shall be made for sale nor any distillery or brewery shall be worked nor any person shall use, keep or have in his possession any materials, still utensil, implement or apparatus whatsoever, for the purpose of manufacturing any intoxicant other than tari, except under the authority and without a licence containing the terms and conditions, granted in that behalf by the Collector Provided that any tari producing tree may be tapped, and tari may be drawn from any tree, without a licence under this Section, by the person in possession of the tree– (a) for the purpose of being used in the manufacture of gur; or (b) for the purpose of being used solely for the preparation of food for domestic consumption upto a limit of five Iitres and not for the purpose of being used - (i) as an intoxicant, or (ii) for the preparation of any intoxicating article, or (iii) for the preparation of any article for sale.