State Act: Himachal Pradesh
The Himachal Pradesh Excise Act, 2011
Act H.P. Act No. 33 of 2012 · 82 sections
Authoritative English text as published by India Code for the Government of Himachal Pradesh, with amendments up to H.P. Act No. 10 of 2024, in force from 1 April 2025.
Title, date and preamble
(Received the assent of the President of India on the 19th July, 2012 and was published both in Hindi and English in the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh, dated 18th August, 2012, pp. 2737-2849).
An Act to consolidate, amend and update the law relating to production, manufacture, possession, import, export, transport, purchase and sale of intoxicating liquors and levy of duties of excise and countervailing duties on alcoholic liquors.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh in the Sixty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
Contents
CHAPTER-I PRELIMINARY AND DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER-II ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTROL
- 5.Financial Commissioner and Collector
- 6.Other classes of Excise Officers and their powers and jurisdiction
- 7.Persons appointed under this Act to be public servants
- 8.Power to enter and inspect
- 9.Power to investigate
- 10.Powers of Excise Officer to search, seize etc
- 11.Powers of Magistrate to issue warrant for search or arrest
- 12.Powers of Excise Officers to obtain information
- 13.Police Officers to aid Excise Officers etc. and to take charge of articles seized
- 14.Power to close liquor vends
CHAPTER–III PRODUCTION, MANUFACTURE, POSSESSION, IMPORT, EXPORT, TRANSPORT, PURCHASE OR SALE
PART-A MANUFACTURE
PART-B POSSESSION
PART-C IMPORT, EXPORT AND TRANSPORT
PART-D SALE etc
CHAPTER–IV LICENSES, PERMITS AND PASSES
- 27.Grant of leases of manufacture, sale etc
- 28.Fees and other conditions for grant of licenses, permits and passes
- 29.Power to cancel or suspend licenses etc
- 30.Power to cancel any other license and to recover fee
- 31.No compensation or refund claimable for cancellation or suspension of license etc
- 32.Power to withdraw license etc
- 33.Technical irregularities in license etc
- 34.No claim in consequence of refusal to renew a license etc
- 35.Surrender of license
CHAPTER-V DUTIES OF EXCISE AND COUNTERVAILING DUTIES
CHAPTER-VI OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
- 39.Penalty for unlawful production, manufacture, possession, import, export, transport, sale etc
- 40.Penalty for rendering or attempting to render denatured spirit fit for human consumption
- 41.Penalty for mixing noxious substance with liquor
- 42.Payment of compensation
- 43.Penalty for certain acts by licensee or his servant
- 44.Penalty for fraud by licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant
- 45.Penalty for consumption of liquor in chemist’s shop
- 46.Penalty for consumption of liquor in public places
- 47.Penalty for offences not otherwise provided for
- 48.Manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another
- 49.Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction
- 50.Attempt to commit or abet offences punishable
- 51.Procedure relating to arrests, searches etc
- 52.Report by investigating officer for institution of proceedings
- 53.Offences to be bailable etc
- 54.Security for appearance in case of arrest without warrant
- 55.Cognizance of offences
- 56.Presumption as to commission of offence in certain cases
- 57.Liability of employer for offence committed by the employee or agent
- 58.Relevancy of statements under certain circumstances
- 59.Penalty for any excise officer making vexatious search, seizure, detention or arrest
CHAPTER-VII CONFISCATION
- 60.Confiscation of article in respect of which offence committed
- 61.Inspection and seizure of vehicle, conveyance and liquor liable to confiscation
- 62.Confiscation of vehicle or conveyance by Excise Officer in certain cases
- 63.Issue of show cause notice before confiscation under section 62
- 64.Penalty in lieu of confiscation
- 65.Disposal of seized liquor during the pendency of trial
CHAPTER–VIII COMPOSITION
CHAPTER–IX APPEAL AND REVISION
CHAPTER–X RECOVERY OF DUES
CHAPTER-XI GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 74.Measures, weights and testing instruments
- 75.Power to exempt
- 76.Delegation of powers
- 77.Power to regulate advertisement
- 78.Establishment of check posts or barriers
- 79.Protection of action taken in good faith
- 80.Powers of the State Government to make rules
- 81.Powers of Financial Commissioner to make rules
- 82.Repeal and savings