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[(1) Instead of or in addition to any duty leviable under the Chapter, the State Government or on its behalf the Excise Commissioner may accept payment of a sum in consideration of the grant of licence for any exclusive or other privilege under section 24 or section 24-A.]7 [(2) The sum payable under sub-section (1) may either be fixed by auction or inviting tenders or otherwise or be assessed on the basis of the sales made or quota lifted under the licence or partly fixed and partly assessed in the aforesaid manner.]8 [(3) For the financial year commencing on April 1, 1983 apart from the sum fixed for grant of licence under section 24-A, the sum assessed, called as assessed fee, on the basis of sales under the licence shall be payable, at the rupees five per reputed quart bottle of all kinds of sprit wine, liquor and cordial and at the rate of paise sixty per reputed quart bottle of bear, stout and other fermented liquors by the wholesale vendors of foreign liquor.]9 [Saving for duties being levied at commencement of the Constitution 30-A (1) Until provision to the contrary is made by the [Parliament]2 the [State Government]3 may continue to levy any duty to which this section applies which it was lawfully levying immediately before the commencement of [the Constitution]2 under this chapter as then in force. (2) The duties to which this section applies are -- (a) any duty on intoxicants [or medicinal or toilet preparations containing alcohol]4 which are not excisable articles within the meaning of this Act; and (b) any duty on an excisable article produced outside India and imported into [Uttar Pradesh]5 whether across a customs frontier as defined by the Central Government or not. (3) Nothing in this section shall authorize the levy by the [State Government]3 of any duty which, as between goods manufactured or produced in the [State]6, and similar goods not so manufactured or produced, discriminates in favour of the former, or which, in the case of goods manufactured or produced outside the [State]6, discriminates between goods manufactured or produced in one locality and similar goods manufactured or produced in another locality.]1