Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
49. Collector may issue search-warrant. Special warrant authorising search between sunset and sunrise.
50. Procedure
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SECTIONS.
50. Procedure after arrest or seizure.
51. Police to assist Excise officers.
VIII.—PENALTIES.
52. For constructing or working a distillery without license.
53. For non-observance of rules prescribed by Chief Revenue Authority.
54. For removing spirituous liquors without payment of duty.
55. For irregular re-land of spirituous liquors.
56. For working brewery without license.
57. For refusing to produce license.
For breach of license.
58. For sale in contravention of license.
Proviso.
59. For permitting drunkenness, &c., in shop.
60. For conveying country spirits from distillery without pass, &c.
61. For contravening rules prescribed by Chief Revenue Authority.
62. For illicit manufacture or sale of country spirits, &c.
Proviso.
63. For illegal possession of country spirits, &c.
Proviso.
64. Exceptions as to tarl, ganja and bhang.
65. For possessing more opium than five tolas weight.
49. The Collector may issue his warrant for the search of any house, boat, or place, in which, upon any of the grounds mentioned in the last preceding section, he has reason to believe that spirits are unlawfully manufactured, or that spirituous or fermented liquors or intoxicating drugs, liable to confiscation under this Act, are kept or concealed.
Such warrant may be executed by any officer above the rank of a jamadár of peons, at the time and in the manner prescribed in section forty-five.
Whenever the Collector thinks that the search should be made between sunset and sunrise on any particular day, he shall issue a warrant specially authorising the search to be so made. Such warrant may be executed by any officer above the rank of a jamadár of peons, in the manner prescribed in section forty-five and shall cease to be in force at sunrise on the day next following.
Source: India Code