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CHAPTER VIII Powers and Duties of Officers

Section 51: Duty of landholders and others to give information

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) Every owner or occupier of land the agent of any such owner or occupier of land on which, and

(2) 1[Every Sarpanch or Panch of a Panchayat established under the Rajasthan Panchayat Act, 1953 (Rajasthan Act 21 of 1953) lambardar], village headman, village accountant or village policeman in whose village, there shall be any manufacture or illegal import or collection of any excisable article not licenced under this Act, or any unlawful cultivation or collection of any plant from which an intoxicating drug can be produced shall be bound in the absence of reasonable excuse, to give notice of the same to a Magistrate or to an officer of the Excise, Police, Customs or Land Revenue Department, immediately the same shall have come to his knowledge.

Footnotes in the official text

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

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