1[122.Power to require production of licences.- (1) The 9[Commissioner] or Collector or any Prohibition Officer duly empowered in this behalf by the State Government or any Police Officer may-
(a) require a licensed manufacturer or vendor or tapper or drawer of toddy or a person in the employ of such manufacturer or vendor or tapper or drawer of toddy or with his express or implied permission on his behalf to produce the licence, permit, pass or authorisation issued under this Act under which he carries on the manufacture, storage, or sale of any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses or taps, toddy-producing trees or draws toddy therefrom;
(b) enter and inspect, at any time by day or by night, any land on which toddy-producing trees are growing, whether such trees are licensed for tapping or not, and any warehouse, godown, shop or premises in which any licensed manufacturer or vendor manufactures, stores, or sells any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses and examine, test, measure or weight any stock of any such articles or cause any such stock to be examined, tested, measured or weighed.
(2) If any officer mentioned in sub-section (1) finds that the holder of a licence, permit, pass or authorization issued under this Act, or a person in the employ of such holder or acting with his express or implied permission on his behalf wilfully does or omits to do anything, which is an offence under this Act, such officer may seize any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses or any material or article in respect of which the offence is committed any document or other article which he has reason to believe may furnish evidence of the commission of an offence under this Act and send a report to his official superior for such action as he deems fit].
(a) require a licensed manufacturer or vendor or tapper or drawer of toddy or a person in the employ of such manufacturer or vendor or tapper or drawer of toddy or with his express or implied permission on his behalf to produce the licence, permit, pass or authorisation issued under this Act under which he carries on the manufacture, storage, or sale of any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses or taps, toddy-producing trees or draws toddy therefrom;
(b) enter and inspect, at any time by day or by night, any land on which toddy-producing trees are growing, whether such trees are licensed for tapping or not, and any warehouse, godown, shop or premises in which any licensed manufacturer or vendor manufactures, stores, or sells any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses and examine, test, measure or weight any stock of any such articles or cause any such stock to be examined, tested, measured or weighed.
(2) If any officer mentioned in sub-section (1) finds that the holder of a licence, permit, pass or authorization issued under this Act, or a person in the employ of such holder or acting with his express or implied permission on his behalf wilfully does or omits to do anything, which is an offence under this Act, such officer may seize any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses or any material or article in respect of which the offence is committed any document or other article which he has reason to believe may furnish evidence of the commission of an offence under this Act and send a report to his official superior for such action as he deems fit].
Source footnotes
1 This section was substituted for the original by Bom. 22 of 1960, s. 81.2 This word was substituted for the word "Director" by Mah. 52 of 1973, s. 3, Sch.
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