Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
(2) Any srlbstauce specified as a poison in a notification issued under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a poison for the purposes of t h ~ s Act.
fication issued under sub-section (1) shall be deemed
Penalties
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- Penal ties o/nd Procedure.
- 7. (1) Whoever,-
- (a) commits a breach of any rule made under seotion 2 or section 4, or
- (b) imports into British India, without a license,white arsenic the importation of which is for the time being restricted under section 3, or
- (c) breaks any condition of a license for the importation of white arsenic granted to him under section 3,
shall be punishable,*
- ( i r o n a first conviotion, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both, and
- (ii) on a second or subsequent conviction, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
`(2)` Any poison in respect of which an offenoe has been committed under this section, to$ether with the vessels, packages or coverings in wh~oh the same is found, and, in the case of any offence mentioned in clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section ( I ) , any animals and convsyances used in carrying it, shall be liable to con fisoation.
4. (1) Subjeot to the control of the Governor General in Oouncil, the Local Government may, by rule, regulate within the whole or any part of the territories under its administration the possession for sale and the sale, whether wholesale or by retail, of white arsenic.
Power to regul~te ~ " w e s s i o ~ or sale and sale of white white alssenic provinoe.
~ " w e s s i o ~ rule, regulate within the whole or any part of the
or sale and sale of white white territories under its administration the possession for
(2) In making any rule under sub-section (I),
the Local Government may direct, that any breach thereof &all be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, ox with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with botb, together vith confiscation of the white arsenic i n respect of which the breach has been oommitted, els, packages or coverings in allich the
thereof &all be punishable with imprisonment for a
Other Poisms.
6, (1) `The` Governor General in Council may,
by notific~tion in the Gazette of India, apply to any specified poison other than white arsenic all or any of the orovisiona of this Act relating exclusively to
whit6 arsenic.
Source: India Code