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CHAPTER IV Manufacture, Possession and Sale

Section 22: Prohibition of sale, etc. to certain persons or in certain manner or circumstances

The Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan, with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 14 of 2014; it also shows section 28-A (surcharge for mitigating natural or manmade calamities), added in 2020.

Section 25 is not printed in this copy; section 24 is followed by section 26.

(1) No licenced vendor and no person in the employ of 1[such vendor or acting] on his behalf hall sell or deliver any liquor or intoxicating drug -

(a) to any person apparently under the age of 18 years, or

(b) to any person of unsound mind, or

(c) to any soldier on duty and in uniform except with the permission of the proper officer of the unit to which the soldier belongs.

Explanation. - The provisions of this sub-section apply whether the liquoror intoxicating drugs is sold or delivered to a person for consumption by himself or by any other person and whether the sale or delivery is for consumption on the premises of the vendor or otherwise.

(2) No such vendor or person as aforesaid shall sell or deliver any liquor or intoxicating drug in exchange whether wholly or in part, for jewellery, clothes, arms or household utensils.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 28 of 1961

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