Section 12. Spirit, fermented liquor and drugs not to be sold without license

12. Spirit, fermented liquor and drugs not to be sold without license. Proviso. 13. Licenses how granted. Power to cancel license for cause specified therein. 14. Power 368 Excise. [ACT XXII SECTIONS. 14. Power to cancel license for other causes. 15. Surrender of retail license. CHAPTER III. SALE OF SPIRIT, FERMENTED LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRUGS. 12. No spirit, fermented liquor or intoxicating drug shall be sold except under, and in accordance with the terms of, a license granted under the provisions hereinafter contained. Provided as follows— (a) nothing in this section applies to the sale of any foreign spirit or foreign fermented liquor legally procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or by auction on his behalf or on behalf of his representatives in interest upon his quitting a station or after his decease; (b) any officer empowered in this behalf by the Chief Revenue-authority may grant to travelling merchants, subject to such rules and restrictions as such authority may from time to time prescribe, a general license authorizing them to sell foreign spirit and foreign fermented liquor wholesale in any district which they may visit in the course of their travels, without taking out a fresh license for that district; (c) any person making or producing country spirit or country fermented liquor, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, may, subject to any rules from time to time made by the Local Government in this behalf, sell such spirit or liquor to any person licensed under this Act as a retail vendor of such spirit or liquor; (d) any cultivator of the hemp plant may sell any intoxicating drug prepared from his plants to any person licensed under this Act to sell the same, or to any person authorized to purchase the same by the Collector's order in writing.