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The Case-Noted Opium and Excise Acts of All-India and Burma

1926

The Opium Act being an All-India and Burma Act is given at the onset and the Excise Acts are given in the following order ; The Madras Act The Bombay Act The Bengal Act The Punjab Act the U. P. Act and the Burma Act. [...] time by notification in the local Gazette make rules' consistent with this Act to permit absolutely or subject to the payment of duty or to any other contions and to regulate within the whole or any specified part of the territories administered by such Government all or any of the following matters :— (a) the cultivation of the poppy ; (h) the manufacture of opium ; (c) the possession of [...] Held that the quantity of opium which may be in the possession of any person is determined by the rules issued by Government under the powers conferred by S. 5 of the Act and Rule 18 covers the case of a retail vendor of opium. [...] On appeal by Government held that as the opium was found in the possession of A it was for the prosecution to prove affirmatively and clearly that the possession of A was merely that of a servant acting under the authority of his master N. The prosecution should further prove that the servant was in possession on his master's behalf and with his master's authority ; the mere fact that A and N we [...] 32 C. 557 that in such a case the consignee knowing that the parcel had been sent to him and that it contained opium the possession of the Railway Receipt constituted possession of the opium within the meaning of S. 9 of the Act.

law
Pages
429
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145387
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii K.V. Srinivas view
Preface
i-i K.V. Srinivas view
The Opium Act 1878. (Act I of 1878)
i-55 K.V. Srinivas view
Bombay Act No. II of 1923
1-2 K.V. Srinivas view
The Madras Abkari Act Madras Act No. I of 1886
56-104 K.V. Srinivas view
Bombay Act No. V of 1878. The Bombay Abkari Act 1878.[As modified up to the 1st March 1922.]
105-162 K.V. Srinivas view
Bengal Act No. V of 1909. The Bengal Excise Act 1909. [As modified up to the 1st December 1914.]
163-227 K.V. Srinivas view
Punjab Act No. I of 1914. The Punjab Excise Act 1914
228-274 K.V. Srinivas view
The United Provinces Excise Act 1910. United Provinces Act IV of 1910. (As modified up to the 30th April 1923.)
275-330 K.V. Srinivas view
Burma Act No. V of 1917. Passed by the Lieutenant-Governor of Burma in Council. An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Excise Law in Burma
331-368 K.V. Srinivas view
Cases Decided Under the Bihar and Orissa Act 11 of 1915
369-383 K.V. Srinivas view
Index
i-xviii K.V. Srinivas view

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