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CHAPTER-VI OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

Section 45: Penalty for consumption of liquor in chemist’s shop

The Himachal Pradesh Excise Act, 2011

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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.

(1) If any chemist, druggist, apothecary or keeper of a dispensary, allows any liquor which has not been bonafide medicated for medicinal purposes to be consumed on his business premises by any person, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year and with fine which shall not be less than two thousand rupees and which may extend to ten thousand rupees.

(2) If a person consumes any such liquor on such premises he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.