No excisable article shall be sold without a Licence from the Excise Commissioner 1[or any Excise Officer duly empowered in that behalf];
Provided that-
(1) a person licensed under this Act to cultivate or collect the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa) may sell without a Licence those portions of the plant from which any intoxicating drugs can be manufactured to any person licensed under this Act to deal in the same or to any office whom the Excise Commissioner may prescribe;
(2) a licence for sale in more than one district of those parts of the State of Rajasthan to which this Act extends shall be granted with the previous approval of the 2[State Government]; and
(3) nothing in this section applies to the sale of any foreign liquor legally procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or by auction on his behalf or on behalf of his representatives in interest upon his quitting a station or after his decease.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.Inserted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 28 of 1952
- 2.Substituted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 38 of 1957