CHAPTER VII. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

Section 38: Penalty for consumption in the Chemists’ shop

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) A chemist, druggist, apothecary or keeper of a dispensary, who allows any intoxicant which has not been bonafide medicated for medicinal purposes to be consumed on his business premises by any person shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months and with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

(2) Any person who consumes any such intoxicant on such premises shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.