CHAPTER V. EXCISE DUTY AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY.

Section 24: Owner or other person in possession of excise trees to give intimation of unwillingness to tap excise trees, etc

The Telangana Excise Act, 1968

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Revenue Department): the Andhra Pradesh Excise Act, 1968 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by the notification issued in G.O.Ms.No.162, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 10.09.2015, with amendments up to Act No.32 of 2017.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as A.P. Acts 2, 4 and 17 of 2020, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

(1) Where in any area, a duty under section 21 is levied, the owner or other person in possession of the excise trees in that area, who is unwilling to have his excise trees tapped or to allow the drawal of toddy there from, shall, before the date notified in this regard by the authority empowered to grant a licence under section 13, intimate his unwillingness in writing to the said authority. ¹[Every such intimation received before the date so notified may be approved by the Commissioner subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf and shall take effect only on and from the date on which it is so approved; and the intimation so approved shall not be revoked during the period of seventeen months from the date so notified.]

(2) Where no such intimation is received by the said authority before the date so notified, the licence applied for under section 13 may be granted to the person applying therefor.

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Footnotes in the official text

1.Substituted by Act No.6 of 1974.
2.Sub-section (3) omitted by Act No.10 of 1989.