Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Omitted by Act No.27 of 1981. Power to make rules. [Act No. 17 of 1968] 59 (d) regulating the import, export, transport, manufacture, cultivation, collection, possession, supply or storage of any intoxicant 93[or material] and may, by such rules, among other matters – (i) regulate the taping of excise trees, the drawing of toddy from such excise trees, the marketing of the same and the maintenance of such marks; (ii) declare the process by which spirits shall be denatured and the denaturation of spirit ascertained; (iii) cause spirit to be denatured through the agency or under the supervision of its own officers; and (iv) regulating the drawing of neera and the sale thereof; (e) regulating the periods and localities in which, and the persons or classes of persons to whom, licenses for the wholesale or retail sale or buying of any intoxicant may be granted and regulating the number of such licenses which may be granted in any area; 94[(ee) separately for shop, Bar or in-house, to regulate the localities in which and the persons or classes of persons to whom lease or licences or both may be granted and to regulate their number which may be granted in any area and the methods of selection for grant of such privilege, lease or licence;] (f) prescribing the procedure to be followed and the matters to be ascertained before any licence for such sale or buying is granted for any locality;